litestar up to 2.10.0 Environment Variable docs-preview.yml DOCS_PREVIEW_DEPLOY_TOKEN os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in litestar up to 2.10.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file docs-preview.yml of the component Environment Variable Handler. Such manipulation of the argument DOCS_PREVIEW_DEPLOY_TOKEN leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-42370. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in litestar up to 2.10.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file docs-preview.yml of the component Environment Variable Handler. The manipulation of the argument DOCS_PREVIEW_DEPLOY_TOKEN with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. In versions 2.10.0 and prior, Litestar's `docs-preview.yml` workflow is vulnerable to Environment Variable injection which may lead to secret exfiltration and repository manipulation. This issue will grant a malicious actor the permission to write issues, read metadata, and write pull requests. In addition, the `DOCS_PREVIEW_DEPLOY_TOKEN` is exposed to the attacker. Commit 84d351e96aaa2a1338006d6e7221eded161f517b contains a fix for this issue.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-42370 since 07/30/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 84d351e96aaa2a1338006d6e7221eded161f517b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• litestar

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10.0

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• open-source

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