Vulnerability CVE-2023-26145


Published: 2023-09-28

Description:
This affects versions of the package pydash before 6.0.0. A number of pydash methods such as pydash.objects.invoke() and pydash.collections.invoke_map() accept dotted paths (Deep Path Strings) to target a nested Python object, relative to the original source object. These paths can be used to target internal class attributes and dict items, to retrieve, modify or invoke nested Python objects.

**Note:**

The pydash.objects.invoke() method is vulnerable to Command Injection when the following prerequisites are satisfied:

1) The source object (argument 1) is not a built-in object such as list/dict (otherwise, the __init__.__globals__ path is not accessible)

2) The attacker has control over argument 2 (the path string) and argument 3 (the argument to pass to the invoked method)


The pydash.collections.invoke_map() method is also vulnerable, but is harder to exploit as the attacker does not have direct control over the argument to be passed to the invoked function.

 References:
https://github.com/dgilland/pydash/commit/6ff0831ad285fff937cafd2a853f20cc9ae92021
https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/45d33e9ea55bf4953b3b31c84703dfca
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYDASH-5916518

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