THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-24065
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2022-24065

Cookiecutter vulnerability

CVSS
8.1
EPSS
4.2%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
The package cookiecutter before 2.1.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection via hg argument injection. When calling the cookiecutter function from Python code with the checkout parameter, it is passed to the hg checkout command in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.
Affected vendor
Cookiecutter Project
Affected product
Cookiecutter
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2022-06-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-24065

  • Confirm whether Cookiecutter Project Cookiecutter is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-24065.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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