Vulnerability · Published Dec 27, 2022 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2022-4768Dropbox merou SSH Public Key public_key.py add_public_key injection

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity injection in merou from Dropbox. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 54% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability was found in Dropbox merou. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function add_public_key of the file grouper/public_key.py of the component SSH Public Key Handler. The manipulation of the argument public_key_str leads to injection. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is d93087973afa26bc0a2d0a5eb5c0fde748bdd107. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-216906 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Dropbox	merou	n/a

Weakness: CWE-74 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.216906 vdb-entry, technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.216906 signature, permissions-required
https://github.com/dropbox/merou/pull/673 issue-tracking
https://github.com/dropbox/merou/commit/d93087973afa26bc0a2d0a5eb5c0fde748bdd107 patch