dask/distributed · Security
Workers for local Dask clusters mistakenly listened on public interfaces
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hwqr-f3v9-hwxr
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-42343
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Versions of distributed earlier than 2021.10.0 had a potential security vulnerability relating to single-machine Dask clusters.
Clusters started with dask.distributed.LocalCluster or dask.distributed.Client() (which defaults to using LocalCluster) would mistakenly configure their respective Dask workers to listen on external interfaces (typically with a randomly selected high port) rather than only on localhost. A Dask cluster created using this method AND running on a machine that has these ports exposed could be used by a sophisticated attacker to enable remote code execution. Users running on machines with standard firewalls in place, or using clusters created via cluster objects other than LocalCluster (e.g. dask_kubernetes.KubeCluster) should not be affected. This vulnerability is documented in CVE-2021-42343, and was fixed in version 2021.10.0 (PR #5427).
CWEs
- CWE-668 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
References
- https://github.com/dask/distributed/security/advisories/GHSA-hwqr-f3v9-hwxr ↗
- https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/changelog.html ↗
- https://github.com/dask/dask/tags ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/distributed/PYSEC-2021-871.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/distributed/PYSEC-2021-872.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/dask/distributed/pull/5427 ↗
- https://github.com/dask/distributed/commit/afce4be8e05fb180e50a9d9e38465f1a82295e1b ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42343 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwqr-f3v9-hwxr ↗