CVE-2024-53848CWE-349

check-jsonschema default caching for remote schemas allows for cache confusion

High · published November 29, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

check-jsonschema is a CLI and set of pre-commit hooks for jsonschema validation. The default cache strategy uses the basename of a remote schema as the name of the file in the cache, e.g. `https://example.org/schema.json` will be stored as `schema.json`. This naming allows for conflicts. If an attacker can get a user to run `check-jsonschema` against a malicious schema URL, e.g., `https://example.evil.org/schema.json`, they can insert their own schema into the cache and it will be picked up and used instead of the appropriate schema. Such a cache confusion attack could be used to allow data to pass validation which should have been rejected. This issue has been patched in version 0.30.0. All users are advised to upgrade. A few workarounds exist: 1. Users can use `--no-cache` to disable caching. 2. Users can use `--cache-filename` to select filenames for use in the cache, or to ensure that other usages do not overwrite the cached schema. (Note: this flag is being deprecated as part of the remediation effort.) 3. Users can explicitly download the schema before use as a local file, as in `curl -LOs https://example.org/schema.json; check-jsonschema --schemafile ./schema.json`

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00145 · 3.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-349 · Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data
Published
2024-11-29T18:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 NOV 18:39Z
    check-jsonschema default caching for remote schemas allows for cache confusion
    cvelistv5