PyPi: Unearth

CVE-2023-45805

Safety vulnerability ID: 61951

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Created at Oct 20, 2023 Updated at Sep 02, 2024
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Advisory

Unearth 0.11.2 includes a fix for CVE-2023-45805: It's possible to craft a malicious pdm.lock file that could allow e.g. an insider or a malicious open source project to appear to depend on a trusted PyPI project, but actually install another project.
https://github.com/frostming/unearth/pull/77

Affected package

unearth

Latest version: 0.17.2

A utility to fetch and download python packages

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

pdm is a Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards. It's possible to craft a malicious `pdm.lock` file that could allow e.g. an insider or a malicious open source project to appear to depend on a trusted PyPI project, but actually install another project. A project `foo` can be targeted by creating the project `foo-2` and uploading the file `foo-2-2.tar.gz` to pypi.org. PyPI will see this as project `foo-2` version `2`, while PDM will see this as project `foo` version `2-2`. The version must only be `parseable as a version` and the filename must be a prefix of the project name, but it's not verified to match the version being installed. Version `2-2` is also not a valid normalized version per PEP 440. Matching the project name exactly (not just prefix) would fix the issue. When installing dependencies with PDM, what's actually installed could differ from what's listed in `pyproject.toml` (including arbitrary code execution on install). It could also be used for downgrade attacks by only changing the version. This issue has been addressed in commit `6853e2642df` which is included in release version `2.9.4`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. See CVE-2023-45805.


MISC:https://github.com/frostming/unearth/blob/eca170d9370ac5032f2e497ee9b1b63823d3fe0f/src/unearth/evaluator.py#L215-L229: https://github.com/frostming/unearth/blob/eca170d9370ac5032f2e497ee9b1b63823d3fe0f/src/unearth/evaluator.py#L215-L229
MISC:https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm/blob/45d1dfa47d4900c14a31b9bb761e4c46eb5c9442/src/pdm/models/candidates.py#L98-L99: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm/blob/45d1dfa47d4900c14a31b9bb761e4c46eb5c9442/src/pdm/models/candidates.py#L98-L99
MISC:https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm/commit/6853e2642dfa281d4a9958fbc6c95b7e32d84831: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm/commit/6853e2642dfa281d4a9958fbc6c95b7e32d84831
MISC:https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm/security/advisories/GHSA-j44v-mmf2-xvm9: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm/security/advisories/GHSA-j44v-mmf2-xvm9
MISC:https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#post-release-spelling: https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#post-release-spelling

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.8

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.8
Attack Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
REQUIRED
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH