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🛡️ CVE-2024-6829 — aim

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-73 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Aim External Control of File Name or Path vulnerability

A vulnerability in aimhubio/aim version 3.19.3 allows an attacker to exploit the tarfile.extractall() function to extract the contents of a maliciously crafted tarfile to arbitrary locations on the host server. The attacker can control repo.path and run_hash to bypass directory existence checks and extract files to unintended locations, potentially overwriting critical files. This can lead to arbitrary data being written to arbitrary locations on the remote tracking server, which could be used for further attacks such as writing a new SSH key to the target server.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-6829 is classified as CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path. A caller can influence which file the application opens or writes, extending an operation to files that were never meant to be reachable.

Affected software

CVE-2024-6829 is recorded against 1 package.

  • aim

Timeline and source

Published on 29 June 2026 and last revised on 1 July 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
huntr.com (Web)
pypi.org (Package)
github.com (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

aim has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-73
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2026-06-29
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
aim — —

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