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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') in Weblate

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 4, 2022 in WeblateOrg/weblate • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

pip Weblate (pip)

Affected versions

< 4.11.1

Patched versions

4.11.1

Description

Impact

Weblate didn't correctly sanitize some arguments passed to Git and Mercurial, which allowed changing their behavior in an unintended way.

Patches

The issues were fixed in the 4.11.1 release. The following commits are addressing it:

  • 35d59f1f040541c358cece0a8d4a63183ca919b8
  • d83672a3e7415da1490334e2c9431e5da1966842

Workarounds

Instances in which untrusted users cannot create new components are not affected.

References

For more information

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References

@nijel nijel published to WeblateOrg/weblate Mar 4, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 4, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 4, 2022
Reviewed Mar 4, 2022
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

High
8.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-23915

GHSA ID

GHSA-3872-f48p-pxqj

Source code

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