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GHSA-f9pm-4g9p-6vm3 json

Bundled libwebp in pywebp vulnerable

published 3y ago modified last yr.

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### Impact pywebp versions before v0.3.0 bundled libwebp binaries in wheels that are vulnerable to CVE-2023-4863. The vulnerability was a heap buffer overflow which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write.

### Patches The problem has been patched upstream in libwebp 1.3.2. pywebp was updated to bundle a patched version of libwebp in v0.3.0.

### Workarounds No known workarounds without upgrading.

### References - https://www.rezilion.com/blog/rezilion-researchers-uncover-new-details-on-severity-of-google-chrome-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2023-4863/ - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863

Patch / fix

  • pypi webp 0.3.0

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi webp
<0.3.0
0.3.0

References

Sources

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