aimhubio/aim · Security
Arbitrary file reading vulnerability in Aim
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-43775
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 9.2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
A path traversal attack aims to access files and directories that are stored outside the web root folder. By manipulating variables that reference files with “dot-dot-slash (../)” sequences and its variations or by using absolute file paths, it may be possible to access arbitrary files and directories stored on file system including application source code or configuration and critical system files.
Vulnerable code: https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/blob/0b99c6ca08e0ba7e7011453a2f68033e9b1d1bce/aim/web/api/views.py#L9-L16
Patches
The vulnerability issue is resolved in Aim v3.1.0.
References
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/security/advisories/GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc ↗
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/pull/1003 ↗
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/blob/0b99c6ca08e0ba7e7011453a2f68033e9b1d1bce/aim/web/api/views.py#L9-L16 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43775 ↗
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/issues/999 ↗
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/commit/b9e53df5e32d14bbd3a2c738e2db7187fb531e93 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/aim/PYSEC-2021-839.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc ↗