FKIE_CVE-2024-29189

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-03-26 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:22
Severity
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products. On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py, upon calling this method _start_program directly, users could exploit its usage to perform malicious operations on the current machine where the script is ran. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.htmlTechnical Description
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bcPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3fPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076Issue Tracking
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077Issue Tracking
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vmExploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.htmlTechnical Description
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bcPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vmExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ansys pyansys_geometry *
ansys pyansys_geometry *
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