Security Advisory

CVE-2024-23346

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-21 16:13:25
Last updated 2024-08-19 07:47:59
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

Pymatgen (Python Materials Genomics) is an open-source Python library for materials analysis. A critical security vulnerability exists in the `JonesFaithfulTransformation.from_transformation_str()` method within the `pymatgen` library prior to version 2024.2.20. This method insecurely utilizes `eval()` for processing input, enabling execution of arbitrary code when parsing untrusted input. Version 2024.2.20 fixes this issue.