CVE-2024-38526

pdoc embeds link to malicious CDN if math mode is enabled

State: Published
Severity: 0.0 None
Published: Jun 25, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Jun 18, 2024

Description

pdoc provides API Documentation for Python Projects. Documentation generated with `pdoc --math` linked to JavaScript files from polyfill.io. The polyfill.io CDN has been sold and now serves malicious code. This issue has been fixed in pdoc 14.5.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	0.0 None	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L/E:H/RL:O/RC:C/MC:N/MI:N/MA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-1395 Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component

Affected Products

Product	Versions
pdocmitmproxy	< 14.5.1Affected

References

https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc/security/advisories/GHSA-5vgj-ggm4-fg62
https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc/pull/703
https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/polyfillio-in-pdoc-cve-2024-38526

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