CVE-2022-42919
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2022-11-07 |
Description
Python 3.9.x and 3.10.x through 3.10.8 on Linux allows local privilege escalation in a non-default configuration. The Python multiprocessing library, when used with the forkserver start method on Linux, allows pickles to be deserialized from any user in the same machine local network namespace, which in many system configurations means any user on the same machine. Pickles can execute arbitrary code. Thus, this allows for local user privilege escalation to the user that any forkserver process is running as. Setting multiprocessing.util.abstract_sockets_supported to False is a workaround. The forkserver start method for multiprocessing is not the default start method. This issue is Linux specific because only Linux supports abstract namespace sockets. CPython before 3.9 does not make use of Linux abstract namespace sockets by default. Support for users manually specifying an abstract namespace socket was added as a bugfix in 3.7.8 and 3.8.4, but users would need to make specific uncommon API calls in order to do that in CPython before 3.9.
See more information about CVE-2022-42919 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
CVSS v3.0 metrics
NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score: | 7.8 | Base Metrics: | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Access Vector: | Local network | Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low | User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged | Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High | Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (PyYAML) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (mod_wsgi) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (numpy) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-PyMySQL) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-cffi) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-chardet) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-cryptography) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-idna) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-lxml) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-ply) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-psutil) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-psycopg2) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-pycparser) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-pysocks) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-requests) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-toml) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-urllib3) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python-wheel) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python39) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python3x-pip) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python3x-setuptools) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (python3x-six) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (scipy) | ELSA-2022-8492 | 2022-11-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (python3.9) | ELSA-2022-8493 | 2022-11-24 |
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