{"id":"CVE-2024-29189","aliases":["EUVD-2024-0801","GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm","PYSEC-2026-1127"],"status":"published","title":"ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability","description":"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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00337,"percentile":0.27284,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-78"],"published":"2024-03-25T19:37:46Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:30Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"ansys-geometry-core","fixed_in":["0.3.3","0.4.12"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"ansys-geometry-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.3.0"},{"fixed":"0.3.3"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"ansys-geometry-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.4.0"},{"fixed":"0.4.12"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"ansys-geometry-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.3.0"},{"fixed":"0.3.3"}]}],"versions":["0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.2"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"ansys-geometry-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.4.0"},{"fixed":"0.4.12"}]}],"versions":["0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.10","0.4.11","0.4.2","0.4.3","0.4.4","0.4.5","0.4.6","0.4.7","0.4.8","0.4.9"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"ansys-geometry-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.3.0"},{"fixed":"0.3.3"},{"introduced":"0.4.0"},{"fixed":"0.4.12"}]}],"versions":["0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.2","0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.10","0.4.11","0.4.2","0.4.3","0.4.4","0.4.5","0.4.6","0.4.7","0.4.8","0.4.9"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"ansys","product":"pyansys-geometry"},{"vendor":"ansys","product":"pyansys_geometry"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Issue Tracking","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Issue Tracking","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Technical Description","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29189","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/29xxx/CVE-2024-29189.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry","tags":["package"]},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/ansys-geometry-core","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-29189","title":"ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-26T02:50:34.984Z","modified":"2024-08-05T20:27:31.415Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:15.337999Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2024-0801","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-26T02:50:34Z","modified":"2024-08-05T20:27:31Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T02:23:11.972603Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm","title":"ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability","description":"subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.\n\n#### Code\n\nOn file [src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py](https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428):\n\n```\n403 def _start_program(args: List[str], local_env: Dict[str, str]) -\u003e subprocess.Popen:\n404     \"\"\"\n405     Start the program where the path is the first item of the ``args`` array argument.\n406\n407     Parameters\n408     ----------\n409     args : List[str]\n410         List of arguments to be passed to the program. The first list's item shall\n411         be the program path.\n412     local_env : Dict[str,str]\n413         Environment variables to be passed to the program.\n414\n415     Returns\n416     -------\n417     subprocess.Popen\n418         The subprocess object.\n419     \"\"\"\n420      return subprocess.Popen(\n421         args,\n422         shell=os.name != \"nt\",\n423         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n424         stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n425         stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n426         env=local_env,\n427      )\n428 \n429 \n\n```\n\nUpon 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.\n\n#### CWE - 78\n\nFor more information see https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html\n\n#### More information\n\nVisit https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html to find out more information.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-25T19:37:46Z","modified":"2025-12-20T00:11:45Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:14.093341Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2024-29189","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-26T03:15:13.15Z","modified":"2026-06-17T07:22:35.517Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:09:43.052376Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2024-29189","title":"ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability","description":"PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products. 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This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-26T02:50:34.984Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:30.182181759Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:40.06138Z"},{"id":"GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm","title":"ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability","description":"subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.\n\n#### Code\n\nOn file [src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py](https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428):\n\n```\n403 def _start_program(args: List[str], local_env: Dict[str, str]) -\u003e subprocess.Popen:\n404     \"\"\"\n405     Start the program where the path is the first item of the ``args`` array argument.\n406\n407     Parameters\n408     ----------\n409     args : List[str]\n410         List of arguments to be passed to the program. The first list's item shall\n411         be the program path.\n412     local_env : Dict[str,str]\n413         Environment variables to be passed to the program.\n414\n415     Returns\n416     -------\n417     subprocess.Popen\n418         The subprocess object.\n419     \"\"\"\n420      return subprocess.Popen(\n421         args,\n422         shell=os.name != \"nt\",\n423         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n424         stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n425         stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n426         env=local_env,\n427      )\n428 \n429 \n\n```\n\nUpon 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.\n\n#### CWE - 78\n\nFor more information see https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html\n\n#### More information\n\nVisit https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html to find out more information.","status":"published","published":"2024-03-25T19:37:46Z","modified":"2026-07-07T17:57:23.849934702Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:35.406455Z"},{"id":"PYSEC-2026-1127","title":"ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability","description":"subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue.\n\n#### Code\n\nOn file [src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py](https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428):\n\n```\n403 def _start_program(args: List[str], local_env: Dict[str, str]) -\u003e subprocess.Popen:\n404     \"\"\"\n405     Start the program where the path is the first item of the ``args`` array argument.\n406\n407     Parameters\n408     ----------\n409     args : List[str]\n410         List of arguments to be passed to the program. The first list's item shall\n411         be the program path.\n412     local_env : Dict[str,str]\n413         Environment variables to be passed to the program.\n414\n415     Returns\n416     -------\n417     subprocess.Popen\n418         The subprocess object.\n419     \"\"\"\n420      return subprocess.Popen(\n421         args,\n422         shell=os.name != \"nt\",\n423         stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n424         stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n425         stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,\n426         env=local_env,\n427      )\n428 \n429 \n\n```\n\nUpon 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.\n\n#### CWE - 78\n\nFor more information see https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html\n\n#### More information\n\nVisit https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html to find out more information.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-07T11:45:36.419888Z","modified":"2026-07-07T17:46:21.275187025Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:52:54.622769Z"}]}}