LOW 3.9 PyPI

tqdm CLI arguments injection attack

GHSA-g7vv-2v7x-gj9p · CVE-2024-34062 · PYSEC-2026-1976

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Description

Impact

Any optional non-boolean CLI arguments (e.g. --delim, --buf-size, --manpath) are passed through python's eval, allowing arbitrary code execution. Example:

python -m tqdm --manpath="\" + str(exec(\"import os\nos.system('echo hi && killall python3')\")) + \""

Patches

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/commit/4e613f84ed2ae029559f539464df83fa91feb316 released in tqdm>=4.66.3

Workarounds

None

References

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