CVE-2023-23608

spotipy Path traversal vulnerability that may lead to type confusion in URI handling code

State
Published
Severity
0.0 None
Published
Jan 24, 2023
Updated
Mar 10, 2025
Reserved
Jan 16, 2023

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Description

Spotipy is a light weight Python library for the Spotify Web API. In versions prior to 2.22.1, if a malicious URI is passed to the library, the library can be tricked into performing an operation on a different API endpoint than intended. The code Spotipy uses to parse URIs and URLs allows an attacker to insert arbitrary characters into the path that is used for API requests. Because it is possible to include "..", an attacker can redirect for example a track lookup via spotifyApi.track() to an arbitrary API endpoint like playlists, but this is possible for other endpoints as well. The impact of this vulnerability depends heavily on what operations a client application performs when it handles a URI from a user and how it uses the responses it receives from the API. This issue is patched in version 2.22.1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.10.0 NoneCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
spotipyspotipy-dev
  • < 2.22.1Affected

References

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