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Vulnerability · Published Mar 26, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-29189ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability

High 7.4

In plain English

A high-severity OS command injection in pyansys-geometry from ansys. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products. On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py, upon calling this method _start_program directly, users could exploit its usage to perform malicious operations on the current machine where the script is ran. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
PyPIansys-geometry-core0.3.3GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm
PyPIansys-geometry-core0.4.12GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm
PyPIansys-geometry-core0.3.3, 0.4.12PYSEC-2026-1127

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
ansys pyansys-geometry >= 0.3.0, < 0.3.3>= 0.4.0, < 0.4.12

Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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