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GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w: rage vulnerable to malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities causing arbitrary binary execution
A plugin name containing a path separator may allow an attacker to execute an arbitrary binary.
Such a plugin name can be provided to the rage CLI through an attacker-controlled recipient or identity string, or to the following age APIs when the plugin feature flag is enabled:
age::plugin::Identity::from_str(or equivalentlystr::parse::<age::plugin::Identity>())age::plugin::Identity::default_for_pluginage::plugin::IdentityPluginV1::newage::plugin::Recipient::from_str(or equivalentlystr::parse::<age::plugin::Recipient>())age::plugin::RecipientPluginV1::new
On UNIX systems, a directory matching age-plugin-* needs to exist in the working directory for the attack to succeed.
The binary is executed with a single flag, either --age-plugin=recipient-v1 or --age-plugin=identity-v1. The standard input includes the recipient or identity string, and the random file key (if encrypting) or the header of the file (if decrypting). The format is constrained by the age-plugin protocol.
An equivalent issue was fixed in the reference Go implementation of age, see advisory GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c.
Thanks to ⬡-49016 for reporting this issue.
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rage vulnerable to malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities causing arbitrary binary execution
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 18, 2024 in str4d/rage • Updated Dec 18, 2024
Package
Affected versions
= 0.6.0
>= 0.7.0, < 0.7.2
>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.2
>= 0.9.0, < 0.9.3
= 0.10.0
= 0.11.0
Patched versions
0.6.1
0.7.2
0.8.2
0.9.3
0.10.1
0.11.1
= 0.6.0
>= 0.7.0, < 0.7.2
>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.2
>= 0.9.0, < 0.9.3
= 0.10.0
= 0.11.0
0.6.1
0.7.2
0.8.2
0.9.3
0.10.1
0.11.1
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Dec 18, 2024
Last updated
Dec 18, 2024