CVE-2023-30620 HIGH

CVE-2023-30620: Arbitrary File Write when Extracting a Remotely retrieved Tarball in mindsdb/mindsdb

Vendor Mindsdb
Product mindsdb
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published April 21, 2023
Last update February 4, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

mindsdb is a Machine Learning platform to help developers build AI solutions. In affected versions an unsafe extraction is being performed using `tarfile.extractall()` from a remotely retrieved tarball. Which may lead to the writing of the extracted files to an unintended location. Sometimes, the vulnerability is called a TarSlip or a ZipSlip variant. An attacker may leverage this vulnerability to overwrite any local file which the server process has access to. There is no risk of file exposure with this vulnerability. This issue has been addressed in release `23.2.1.0 `. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 21, 2023 CVE published
February 4, 2025 Record updated