CVE-2024-29189

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.

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.

subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.

Code

On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py:

403 def _start_program(args: List[str], local_env: Dict[str, str]) -> subprocess.Popen:
404     """
405     Start the program where the path is the first item of the ``args`` array argument.
406
407     Parameters
408     ----------
409     args : List[str]
410         List of arguments to be passed to the program. The first list's item shall
411         be the program path.
412     local_env : Dict[str,str]
413         Environment variables to be passed to the program.
414
415     Returns
416     -------
417     subprocess.Popen
418         The subprocess object.
419     """
420      return subprocess.Popen(
421         args,
422         shell=os.name != "nt",
423         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
424         stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
425         stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
426         env=local_env,
427      )
428 
429 

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. With this resolution made through #1076 and #1077, we make sure that this method is only called from within the library and we are no longer enabling the shell=True option.

CWE - 78

For more information see https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html

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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.

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.

subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.

Code

On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py:

403 def _start_program(args: List[str], local_env: Dict[str, str]) -> subprocess.Popen:
404     """
405     Start the program where the path is the first item of the ``args`` array argument.
406
407     Parameters
408     ----------
409     args : List[str]
410         List of arguments to be passed to the program. The first list's item shall
411         be the program path.
412     local_env : Dict[str,str]
413         Environment variables to be passed to the program.
414
415     Returns
416     -------
417     subprocess.Popen
418         The subprocess object.
419     """
420      return subprocess.Popen(
421         args,
422         shell=os.name != "nt",
423         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
424         stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
425         stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
426         env=local_env,
427      )
428 
429 

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. With this resolution made through #1076 and #1077, we make sure that this method is only called from within the library and we are no longer enabling the shell=True option.

CWE - 78

For more information see https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html

More information

Visit https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html to find out more information.

subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.

Code

On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py:

403 def _start_program(args: List[str], local_env: Dict[str, str]) -> subprocess.Popen:
404     """
405     Start the program where the path is the first item of the ``args`` array argument.
406
407     Parameters
408     ----------
409     args : List[str]
410         List of arguments to be passed to the program. The first list's item shall
411         be the program path.
412     local_env : Dict[str,str]
413         Environment variables to be passed to the program.
414
415     Returns
416     -------
417     subprocess.Popen
418         The subprocess object.
419     """
420      return subprocess.Popen(
421         args,
422         shell=os.name != "nt",
423         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
424         stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
425         stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
426         env=local_env,
427      )
428 
429 

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. With this resolution made through #1076 and #1077, we make sure that this method is only called from within the library and we are no longer enabling the shell=True option.

CWE - 78

For more information see https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html

More information

Visit https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html to find out more information.