CVE-2023-50263: Nautobot Unauthenticated Db-file-storage Views Vulnerability
LOWCVE-2023-50263 is a LOW (CVSS 3.7) unauthenticated db-file-storage views vulnerability (CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function) affecting Nautobot libraries in the PyPI ecosystem. The issue involves unauthenticated db-file-storage views. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 1.6.7, 2.0.6.
CVE-2023-50263 at a Glance
Security Impact
CVSS: 3.7
The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).
How to Fix CVE-2023-50263
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Nautobot dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.
pip install nautobot>=1.6.7
pip install nautobot>=2.0.6
Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
pip show nautobot
How to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your Python environment is affected by CVE-2023-50263, inspect your installed packages using pip:
pip show nautobot
Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Nautobot in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 1.6.7), your application is affected.
Note: The pip show nautobot command checks currently installed packages in your active Python environment.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function, where the product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. In Nautobot, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.
Source Advisory Statement
CVE-2023-50263 Affected Nautobot Versions
2 component(s)| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
nautobot
|
PyPI |
≥ 1.1.0
< 1.6.7
|
1.6.7
|
|
nautobot
|
PyPI |
≥ 2.0.0
< 2.0.6
|
2.0.6
|
References
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Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
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"schema_version" : "1.4.0",
"id" : "GHSA-75mc-3pjc-727q",
"modified" : "2024-11-22T18:14:45Z",
"published" : "2023-12-13T13:35:48Z",
"aliases" : [ "CVE-2023-50263" ],
"summary" : "Unauthenticated db-file-storage views",
"details" : "### Impact\n\n In Nautobot 1.x and 2.0.x, the URLs `/files/get/?name=...` and `/files/download/?name=...` are used to provide admin access to files that have been uploaded as part of a run request for a Job that has FileVar inputs. Under normal operation these files are ephemeral and are deleted once the Job in question runs. \n\nIt was reported by @kircheneer that in the default implementation used in Nautobot, as provided by `django-db-file-storage`, these URLs do not by default require any user authentication to access; they should instead be restricted to only users who have permissions to view Nautobot's `FileProxy` model instances.\n\nNote that no URL mechanism is provided for listing or traversal of the available file `name` values, so in practice an unauthenticated user would have to guess names to discover arbitrary files for download, but if a user knows the file name/path value, they can access it without authenticating, so we are considering this a vulnerability.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixes will be included in Nautobot 1.6.7 and Nautobot 2.0.6.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nNo workaround other than applying the patches included in https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4959/files (2.0.x) or https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4964/files (1.6.x)\n\n### References\n\n- https://github.com/victor-o-silva/db_file_storage/blob/master/db_file_storage/views.py",
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