GHSA-5vgj-ggm4-fg62HighCVSS 7.2

pdoc embeds link to malicious CDN if math mode is enabled

Published
June 25, 2024
Last Modified
July 26, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-38526 →

📋 Description

Impact

Documentation generated with pdoc --math linked to JavaScript files from polyfill.io. The polyfill.io CDN has been sold and now serves malicious code.

Users who produce documentation with math mode should update immediately. All other users are unaffected.

Patches

This issue has been fixed in pdoc 14.5.1.

References

https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc/pull/703 https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

Timeline

  • [2024-06-25] https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack is published.
  • [2024-06-25 20:54 UTC] Issue reported to the pdoc project by @adhintz.
  • [2024-06-25 21:33 UTC] Patched version released.
  • [2024-06-25 21:37 UTC] Security advisory published.
  • [2024-06-25 23:49 UTC] CVE-2024-38526 assigned by GitHub.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pdoc:< 14.5.1

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