VYPR
Low severityNVD Advisory· Published May 8, 2023· Updated Jan 29, 2025

Mutagen list and monitor operations do not neutralize control characters in text controlled by remote endpoints

CVE-2023-30844

Description

Mutagen provides real-time file synchronization and flexible network forwarding for developers. Prior to versions 0.16.6 and 0.17.1 in mutagen and prior to version 0.17.1 in mutagen-compose, Mutagen list and monitor commands are susceptible to control characters that could be provided by remote endpoints. This could cause terminal corruption, either intentional or unintentional, if these characters were present in error messages or file paths/names. This could be used as an attack vector if synchronizing with an untrusted remote endpoint, synchronizing files not under control of the user, or forwarding to/from an untrusted remote endpoint. On very old systems with terminals susceptible to issues such as CVE-2003-0069, the issue could theoretically cause code execution. The problem has been patched in Mutagen v0.16.6 and v0.17.1. Earlier versions of Mutagen are no longer supported and will not be patched. Versions of Mutagen after v0.18.0 will also have the patch merged. As a workaround, avoiding synchronization of untrusted files or interaction with untrusted remote endpoints should mitigate any risk.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/mutagen-io/mutagenGo
< 0.16.60.16.6
github.com/mutagen-io/mutagen-composeGo
< 0.17.10.17.1
github.com/mutagen-io/mutagenGo
>= 0.17.0, < 0.17.10.17.1

Affected products

1

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

5

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.