PSF-2022-9

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Import Source
https://github.com/psf/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/python/PSF-2022-9.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PSF-2022-9
Aliases
Published
2022-11-06T00:00:00Z
Modified
2023-12-06T00:47:38.055998Z
Summary
Linux specific local privilege escalation via the multiprocessing forkserver start method
Details

Python 3.9.x before 3.9.16 and 3.10.x before 3.10.9 on Linux allows local privilege escalation in a non-default configuration. The Python multiprocessing library, when used with the forkserver start method on Linux, allows pickles to be deserialized from any user in the same machine local network namespace, which in many system configurations means any user on the same machine. Pickles can execute arbitrary code. Thus, this allows for local user privilege escalation to the user that any forkserver process is running as. Setting multiprocessing.util.abstractsocketssupported to False is a workaround. The forkserver start method for multiprocessing is not the default start method. This issue is Linux specific because only Linux supports abstract namespace sockets. CPython before 3.9 does not make use of Linux abstract namespace sockets by default. Support for users manually specifying an abstract namespace socket was added as a bugfix in 3.7.8 and 3.8.3, but users would need to make specific uncommon API calls in order to do that in CPython before 3.9.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python/cpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python/cpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Fixed
Fixed

Affected versions

2.*

2.5

3.*

3.2

v0.*

v0.9.8
v0.9.9

v1.*

v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1
v1.1.1
v1.2
v1.2b1
v1.2b2
v1.2b3
v1.2b4
v1.3
v1.3b1
v1.4
v1.4b1
v1.4b2
v1.4b3
v1.5
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.2a1
v1.5.2a2
v1.5.2b1
v1.5.2b2
v1.5.2c1
v1.5a1
v1.5a2
v1.5a3
v1.5a4
v1.5b1
v1.5b2
v1.6a1
v1.6a2

v2.*

v2.0
v2.0b1
v2.0b2
v2.0c1
v2.1
v2.1a1
v2.1a2
v2.1b1
v2.1b2
v2.1c1
v2.1c2
v2.2a3
v2.3c1
v2.3c2
v2.4
v2.4a1
v2.4a2
v2.4a3
v2.4b1
v2.4b2
v2.4c1
v2.5
v2.5.1
v2.5.1c1
v2.5.2
v2.5.2c1
v2.5.3
v2.5.3c1
v2.5.4
v2.5.5
v2.5.5c1
v2.5.5c2
v2.5.6
v2.5.6c1
v2.5a0
v2.5a1
v2.5a2
v2.5b1
v2.5b2
v2.5b3
v2.5c1
v2.5c2
v2.6
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.6.2c1
v2.6.3
v2.6.3rc1
v2.6.4
v2.6.4rc1
v2.6.4rc2
v2.6.5
v2.6.5rc1
v2.6.5rc2
v2.6.6
v2.6.6rc1
v2.6.6rc2
v2.6.7
v2.6.8
v2.6.8rc1
v2.6.8rc2
v2.6a1
v2.6a2
v2.6a3
v2.6b1
v2.6b2
v2.6b3
v2.6rc1
v2.6rc2
v2.7
v2.7.1
v2.7.1rc1
v2.7.2
v2.7.2rc1
v2.7.3
v2.7.3rc1
v2.7.3rc2
v2.7.4rc1
v2.7a1
v2.7a2
v2.7a3
v2.7a4
v2.7b1
v2.7b2
v2.7rc1
v2.7rc2

v3.*

v3.0a1
v3.0a2
v3.0a3
v3.0a4
v3.0a5
v3.0b1
v3.0b2
v3.0b3
v3.0rc1
v3.0rc2
v3.0rc3
v3.1
v3.1.1
v3.1.1rc1
v3.1.2
v3.1.2rc1
v3.1.3
v3.1.3rc1
v3.1.4
v3.1.4rc1
v3.1.5
v3.1.5rc1
v3.1.5rc2
v3.10.0
v3.10.0a1
v3.10.0a2
v3.10.0a3
v3.10.0a4
v3.10.0a5
v3.10.0a6
v3.10.0a7
v3.10.0b1
v3.10.0b2
v3.10.0b3
v3.10.0b4
v3.10.0rc1
v3.10.0rc2
v3.10.1
v3.10.2
v3.10.3
v3.10.4
v3.10.5
v3.10.6
v3.10.7
v3.10.8
v3.11.0a1
v3.11.0a2
v3.11.0a3
v3.11.0a4
v3.11.0a5
v3.11.0a6
v3.11.0a7
v3.11.0b1
v3.11.0b2
v3.11.0b3
v3.11.0b4
v3.11.0b5
v3.11.0rc1
v3.11.0rc2
v3.1a1
v3.1a2
v3.1b1
v3.1rc1
v3.1rc2
v3.2
v3.2.1
v3.2.1b1
v3.2.1rc1
v3.2.1rc2
v3.2.2
v3.2.2rc1
v3.2.3
v3.2.3rc1
v3.2.3rc2
v3.2.4
v3.2.4rc1
v3.2.5
v3.2.6
v3.2.6rc1
v3.2a1
v3.2a2
v3.2a3
v3.2a4
v3.2b1
v3.2b2
v3.2rc1
v3.2rc2
v3.2rc3
v3.3.0
v3.3.0a1
v3.3.0a2
v3.3.0a3
v3.3.0a4
v3.3.0b1
v3.3.0b2
v3.3.0rc1
v3.3.0rc2
v3.3.0rc3
v3.3.1
v3.3.1rc1
v3.3.2
v3.3.3
v3.3.3rc1
v3.3.3rc2
v3.3.4
v3.3.4rc1
v3.3.5
v3.3.5rc1
v3.3.5rc2
v3.3.6
v3.3.6rc1
v3.4.0
v3.4.0a1
v3.4.0a2
v3.4.0a3
v3.4.0a4
v3.4.0b1
v3.4.0b2
v3.4.0b3
v3.4.0rc1
v3.4.0rc2
v3.4.0rc3
v3.4.1
v3.4.1rc1
v3.4.2
v3.4.2rc1
v3.4.3
v3.4.3rc1
v3.4.4
v3.4.4rc1
v3.4.5
v3.4.5rc1
v3.4.6
v3.4.6rc1
v3.5.0
v3.5.0a1
v3.5.0a2
v3.5.0a3
v3.5.0a4
v3.5.0b1
v3.5.0b2
v3.5.0b3
v3.5.0b4
v3.5.0rc1
v3.5.0rc2
v3.5.0rc3
v3.5.0rc4
v3.5.1
v3.5.1rc1
v3.5.2
v3.5.2rc1
v3.5.3
v3.5.3rc1
v3.6.0
v3.6.0a1
v3.6.0a2
v3.6.0a3
v3.6.0a4
v3.6.0b1
v3.6.0b2
v3.6.0b3
v3.6.0b4
v3.6.0rc1
v3.6.0rc2
v3.7.0a1
v3.7.0a2
v3.7.0a3
v3.7.0a4
v3.8.0a1
v3.8.0a2
v3.8.0a3
v3.8.0a4
v3.8.0b1
v3.9.0
v3.9.0a1
v3.9.0a2
v3.9.0a3
v3.9.0a4
v3.9.0a5
v3.9.0a6
v3.9.0b1
v3.9.0b2
v3.9.0b3
v3.9.0b4
v3.9.0b5
v3.9.0rc1
v3.9.0rc2
v3.9.1
v3.9.10
v3.9.11
v3.9.12
v3.9.13
v3.9.14
v3.9.15
v3.9.1rc1
v3.9.2
v3.9.2rc1
v3.9.3
v3.9.4
v3.9.5
v3.9.6
v3.9.7
v3.9.8
v3.9.9