Bug 1262928 (CVE-2015-0853)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0853 pysvn: Insecure use of os.system() in Workbench
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ravenoak, sgallagh
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Bug Depends On:	1262929, 1262930
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-09-14 16:13:40 UTC

A vulnerability in Workbench was found. If a user was tricked into using the "Command Shell" menu item while in a directory with a specially-crafted name, svn-workbench would execute arbitrary commands with the permissions of the user.

Reproducer available at:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/542

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-09-14 16:14:18 UTC

Created pysvn tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1262929]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1262930]

Comment 2 Stephen Gallagher 2015-09-18 17:01:21 UTC

According to the reproducer page, this affects the svn-workbench project, not pysvn. svn-workbench produced by the same upstream, but there is no such vulnerability in pysvn.

Fedora does not ship svn-workbench, so closing all as NOTABUG.