🛡️ CVE-2023-41334 on Debian — astropy

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper input validation in the TranformGraph().to_dot_graph function. A malicious user can provide a command or a script file as a value to the savelayout argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list of arguments passed to subprocess.Popen. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-41334 as tracked by Debian, for the package astropy. The fix is available in version 5.3.3-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, 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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41334 is classified as CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'). The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or…

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-41334 is recorded against 1 package.

  • astropy (fixed in 5.3.3-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 March 2024 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
astropy — 5.3.3-1

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