GHSA-m2c7-42rf-c62f

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in motionEye

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-44255

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	motioneye	<= 0.42.1	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

motionEye <= 0.42.1 and motioneEyeOS <= 20200606 allow a remote attacker to upload a configuration backup file containing a malicious python pickle file. This is possible when an installation is accessible over the Internet and uses no or poor authentication credentials. The GitHub repositories for motionEye and motionEyeOS are no longer being actively maintained as of January 2022, so release of a patched version is unlikely. Keeping a motionEye or motionEyeOS installation off of the Internet and/or using strong credentials provide protection against this issue.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44255 advisory
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues/2843 web
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye package
https://www.pizzapower.me/2021/10/09/self-hosted-security-part-1-motioneye web