This affects versions of the package pydash before 6.0.0. A number of pydash methods such as pydash.objects.invoke() and pydash.collections.invoke_map() accept dotted paths (Deep Path Strings) to target a nested Python object, relative to the original source object. These paths can be used to target internal class attributes and dict items, to retrieve, modify or invoke nested Python objects.
**Note:**
The pydash.objects.invoke() method is vulnerable to Command Injection when the following prerequisites are satisfied:
1) The source object (argument 1) is not a built-in object such as list/dict (otherwise, the __init__.__globals__ path is not accessible)
2) The attacker has control over argument 2 (the path string) and argument 3 (the argument to pass to the invoked method)
The pydash.collections.invoke_map() method is also vulnerable, but is harder to exploit as the attacker does not have direct control over the argument to be passed to the invoked function.
Publication date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:15:00 +0000