GHSA-vp47-9734-prjw: ASTEVAL Allows Malicious Tampering of Exposed AST Nodes Leads to Sandbox Escape

January 23, 2025

If an attacker can control the input to the asteval library, they can bypass its safety restrictions and execute arbitrary Python code within the application’s context.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp47-9734-prjw
github.com/lmfit/asteval
github.com/lmfit/asteval/commit/45bb47533f7abb5479618ae7f6a809215700dcb2
github.com/lmfit/asteval/security/advisories/GHSA-vp47-9734-prjw

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