ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability
Date: 2024-03
Affected: pip/ansys-geometry-core, pip/ansys-geometry-core
Attack vector: command-injection
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2024-29189
CWE: CWE-78
CVSS: 7.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

subprocess call with shell=True identified, security issue. #### Code On 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): ``` 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 mo


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