CVE-2022-23522

HIGH

Mindsdb < 22.11.4.3 - Path Traversal

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

MindsDB is an open source machine learning platform. An unsafe extraction is being performed using `shutil.unpack_archive()` from a remotely retrieved tarball. Which may lead to the writing of the extracted files to an unintended location. This vulnerability is sometimes called a **TarSlip** or a **ZipSlip variant**. Unpacking files using the high-level function `shutil.unpack_archive()` from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path remained within the intended destination directory may cause files to be overwritten outside the destination directory. An attacker could craft a malicious tarball with a filename path, such as `../../../../../../../../etc/passwd`, and then serve the archive remotely using a personal bucket `s3`, thus, retrieve the tarball through **mindsdb** and overwrite the system files of the hosting server. This issue has been addressed in version 22.11.4.3. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid ingesting archives from untrusted sources.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 61.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (2)
mindsdb/mindsdb < 22.11.4.3
pypi/mindsdb 0 - 22.11.4.3PyPI
Published Mar 30, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026