Vulnerability CVE-2022-26184
Published: 2022-03-21   Modified: 2022-03-22

Description:
Poetry v1.1.9 and below was discovered to contain an untrusted search path which causes the application to behave in unexpected ways when users execute Poetry commands in a directory containing malicious content. This vulnerability occurs when the application is ran on Windows OS.

Type:

CWE-426

 (Untrusted Search Path)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial

 References:
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/1.1.9
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/205/commits/fa9cb6f358ae840885c700f954317f34838caba7
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