GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc
Arbitrary file reading vulnerability in Aim
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/security/advisories/GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43775
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/issues/999
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/pull/1003
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/commit/b9e53df5e32d14bbd3a2c738e2db7187fb531e93
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/blob/0b99c6ca08e0ba7e7011453a2f68033e9b1d1bce/aim/web/api/views.py#L9-L16
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/aim/PYSEC-2021-839.yaml