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high 7.8

GHSA-9fxf-4qw3-ghmr json

Local privilege escalation with privileged executables and spoofed environment variables

published 2mo ago modified 2mo ago

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository pyinstaller/pyinstaller. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database and no CVE record has reached us yet, so everything here comes from the maintainers alone. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, the maintainers
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Security advisory published by the maintainers of pyinstaller/pyinstaller for pyinstaller: the maintainers' own advisory, not a reviewed GitHub Advisory Database entry. The full advisory is on GitHub.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pyinstaller 6.22.1

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
the maintainers 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pyinstaller
<6.22.1
6.22.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-807 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

References

Sources

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The maintainers of pyinstaller/pyinstaller published their own advisory on GitHub. Its facts and headline are shown here; the description stays on GitHub.