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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1oZ2MzLWhwNngtd3BneM0W2A

Antilles Dependency Confusion Vulnerability

Potential Impact:

Remote code execution.

Scope of Impact:

Open-source project specific.

Summary Description:

A dependency confusion vulnerability was reported in the Antilles open-source software prior to version 1.0.1 that could allow for remote code execution during installation due to a package listed in requirements.txt not existing in the public package index (PyPi).
MITRE classifies this weakness as an Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) in which a private package dependency may be replaced by an unauthorized package of the same name published to a well-known public repository such as PyPi.
The configuration has been updated to only install components built by Antilles, removing all other public package indexes. Additionally, the antilles-tools dependency has been published to PyPi.

Mitigation Strategy for Customers (what you should do to protect yourself):

Remove previous versions of Antilles as a precautionary measure and Update to version 1.0.1 or later.

Acknowledgement:

The Antilles team thanks Kotko Vladyslav for reporting this issue.

References:

https://github.com/lenovo/Antilles/commit/c7b9c5740908b343aceefe69733d9972e64df0b9

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgc3-hp6x-wpgx
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 8.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-hgc3-hp6x-wpgx, CVE-2021-3840
References:

• https://github.com/lenovo/Antilles/security/advisories/GHSA-hgc3-hp6x-wpgx
• https://github.com/lenovo/Antilles/commit/c7b9c5740908b343aceefe69733d9972e64df0b9
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3840
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgc3-hp6x-wpgx

Repository: https://github.com/lenovo/Antilles
Blast Radius: 1.0

Affected Packages