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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0yOWd3LTk3OTMtZnZ3N84AAxh6
IPython vulnerable to command injection via set_term_title
IPython provides an interactive Python shell and Jupyter kernel to use Python interactively. Versions prior to 8.10.0 are vulnerable to command injection in the set_term_title function under specific conditions. This has been patched in version 8.10.0.
Impact
Users are only vulnerable when calling this function in Windows in a Python environment where ctypes is not available. The dependency on ctypes in IPython.utils._process_win32 prevents the vulnerable code from ever being reached (making it effectively dead code). However, as a library that could be used by another tool, set_term_title could introduce a vulnerability for dependencies. Currently set_term_title is only called with (semi-)trusted input that contain the current working directory of the current IPython session. If an attacker can control directory names, and manage to get a user to cd into this directory, then the attacker can execute arbitrary commands contained in the folder names.
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: over 1 year ago
Updated: 19 days ago
CVSS Score: 4.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Identifiers: GHSA-29gw-9793-fvw7, CVE-2023-24816
References:
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/security/advisories/GHSA-29gw-9793-fvw7
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/385d69325319a5972ee9b5983638e3617f21cb1f
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/991849c247fc208628879e7ca2923b3c218a5a75
- https://github.com/Carreau/ipython/blob/7557ade0ed927475d5ab5b573d0ea4febfb22683/docs/source/whatsnew/version8.rst#ipython-810
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24816
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/3f0bf05f072a91b2a3042d23ce250e5e906183fd/IPython/utils/terminal.py#L103-L117
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/56e6925dfa50e2c7f4a6471547b8176275db7c25/IPython/utils/_process_win32.py#L20
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2023-17.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29gw-9793-fvw7
Blast Radius: 23.1
Affected Packages
pypi:ipython
Dependent packages: 3,074Dependent repositories: 133,952
Downloads: 51,211,538 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 8.10.0
Fixed in: 8.10.0
All affected versions: 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8, 0.6.9, 0.6.10, 0.6.11, 0.6.12, 0.6.13, 0.6.14, 0.6.15, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.9.1, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.12.1, 0.13.1, 0.13.2, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.5.0, 5.6.0, 5.7.0, 5.8.0, 5.9.0, 5.10.0, 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.4.0, 6.5.0, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.2.0, 7.3.0, 7.4.0, 7.5.0, 7.6.0, 7.6.1, 7.7.0, 7.8.0, 7.9.0, 7.10.0, 7.10.1, 7.10.2, 7.11.0, 7.11.1, 7.12.0, 7.13.0, 7.14.0, 7.15.0, 7.16.0, 7.16.1, 7.16.2, 7.16.3, 7.17.0, 7.18.0, 7.18.1, 7.19.0, 7.20.0, 7.21.0, 7.22.0, 7.23.0, 7.23.1, 7.24.0, 7.24.1, 7.25.0, 7.26.0, 7.27.0, 7.28.0, 7.29.0, 7.30.0, 7.30.1, 7.31.0, 7.31.1, 7.32.0, 7.33.0, 7.34.0, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.2.0, 8.3.0, 8.4.0, 8.5.0, 8.6.0, 8.7.0, 8.8.0, 8.9.0
All unaffected versions: 8.10.0, 8.11.0, 8.12.0, 8.12.1, 8.12.2, 8.12.3, 8.13.0, 8.13.1, 8.13.2, 8.14.0, 8.15.0, 8.16.0, 8.16.1, 8.17.0, 8.17.1, 8.17.2, 8.18.0, 8.18.1, 8.19.0, 8.20.0, 8.21.0, 8.22.0, 8.22.1, 8.22.2, 8.23.0, 8.24.0, 8.25.0, 8.26.0, 8.27.0, 8.28.0