CVE-2024-41951
Python vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Pheonix App is a Python application designed to streamline various tasks, from managing files to playing mini-games. The vulnerability involves the exposure of encoding/decoding language maps in the application's code. This security issue was discovered and patched in version 0.2.4 (GitHub Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-323 (Reusing a Nonce, Key Pair in Encryption) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.4 (Medium). The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating local access required, low attack complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction needed, unchanged scope, and low impact on confidentiality and integrity with no impact on availability (NVD).

Impact

The impact is considered moderate, primarily affecting users who require secure code and file handling. While the exposure of encoding/decoding language maps doesn't pose a significant risk to normal users, it could compromise security for those handling sensitive data or requiring code security (GitHub Advisory).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires local access with low attack complexity and low privileges. No user interaction is needed to exploit the vulnerability, though the attacker must have local access to the system (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to version 0.2.4 or later to address this vulnerability. For version 0.2.5 users, it's recommended to run the post_install.py file inside the Scripts folder after downloading from pip. While code modification is possible as a workaround, it's not recommended as it may lead to additional issues (GitHub Advisory).

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