4.4 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
- Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
- User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
Activity log
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Datasets Symlink-following Arbitrary File Write via Extractor.extract()
Datasets through 5.00, fixed in commit ad2d853, contains a symlink-following vulnerability in Extractor.extract() that allows local attackers to write arbitrary files by pre-planting symlinks at predictable output paths. Attackers can redirect archive extraction to arbitrary filesystem locations in shared-cache environments, enabling overwrite of sensitive files and potential privilege escalation or code execution.
References
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Pull Request issue-tracking
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Patch Commit patch
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https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/datasets-symlink-following-arbitrary-file-… third-party-advisory
Affected products
- ==ad2d853ae2ce41d8068c23b44c2e29004312ccee
- =<5.00
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.python313Packages.datasets
Open-access datasets and evaluation metrics for natural language processing
pkgs.python314Packages.datasets
Open-access datasets and evaluation metrics for natural language processing
pkgs.python313Packages.datasets_3
Open-access datasets and evaluation metrics for natural language processing
pkgs.python314Packages.datasets_3
Open-access datasets and evaluation metrics for natural language processing
pkgs.python313Packages.geodatasets
Spatial data examples
pkgs.python314Packages.geodatasets
Spatial data examples
pkgs.python313Packages.vega-datasets
Python package for offline access to vega datasets
pkgs.python314Packages.vega-datasets
Python package for offline access to vega datasets
pkgs.python313Packages.tensorflow-datasets
Library of datasets ready to use with TensorFlow
pkgs.python313Packages.home-assistant-datasets
Collection of datasets for evaluating AI Models in the context of Home Assistant
pkgs.python314Packages.home-assistant-datasets
Collection of datasets for evaluating AI Models in the context of Home Assistant
Package maintainers
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@osbm Osman Bayram <osmanfbayram@gmail.com>
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@malteneuss Malte Neuss
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@autra Augustin Trancart <augustin.trancart@gmail.com>
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@willcohen Will Cohen
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@imincik Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik@gmail.com>
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@l0b0 Victor Engmark <victor@engmark.name>
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@nialov Nikolas Ovaskainen <nikolasovaskainen@gmail.com>
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@sikmir Nikolay Korotkiy <sikmir@disroot.org>
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@nh2 Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>
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@fabaff Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch>
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@ndl Alexander Tsvyashchenko <ndl@endl.ch>