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CVE-2024-29189: ansys-geometry-core OS Command Injection vulnerability
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2024-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products. On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py, upon calling this method _start_program directly, users could exploit its usage to perform malicious operations on the current machine where the script is ran. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12.
Affected products
- ansys pyansys-geometry: from 0.3.0 before 0.3.3; from 0.4.0 before 0.4.12 — fixed in 0.3.3, 0.4.12
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: ansys pyansys-geometry 0.3.3, 0.4.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm
- https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076
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