CVE-2024-29189
low-risk
Published 2024-03-26
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.12% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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7
CVSS 7.4/10
High
LOCAL
/ HIGH complexity
Affected Products (1)
Pyansys Geometry
Affected Vendors
References (14)
Technical Description
https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_...
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077
Technical Description
https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_...
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077
25
/ 100
low-risk
Severity
19/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal