Vulnerability CVE-2024-29189

Vulnerability CVE-2024-29189

Published: 2024-03-26

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.

References:

https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm

https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076

https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077

https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc

https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f

https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html

https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428