Vulnerabilities in pkg:pypi/graphifyy
PACKAGEGHSA-pcc4-rvhr-2pr8 is a MODERATE incomplete cpp #include hardening allows vulnerability (CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path) affecting Graphify Fortran extractor libraries in the PyPI ecosystem. The issue involves incomplete cpp #include hardening allows arbitrary host-file read/exfiltration when indexing an untrusted repo. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 0.9.70.
pkg:pypi/graphifyy
Vulnerability advisories affecting package pkg:pypi/graphifyy. Select an advisory below to view technical details or fixes.
| Advisory ID | CVE / NVD | Severity | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-pcc4-rvhr-2pr8 | - | MODERATE | Graphify Fortran extractor: incomplete cpp #include hardening allows arbitrary host-file read/exfiltration when indexing an untrusted repo |
GHSA-pcc4-rvhr-2pr8 at a Glance
How to Fix GHSA-pcc4-rvhr-2pr8
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Graphify Fortran extractor 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 graphifyy>=0.9.70
Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
pip show graphifyy
How to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your Python environment is affected by GHSA-pcc4-rvhr-2pr8, inspect your installed packages using pip:
pip show graphifyy
Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Graphify Fortran extractor in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 0.9.70), your application is affected.
Note: The pip show graphifyy command checks currently installed packages in your active Python environment.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path, where the product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations. In Graphify Fortran extractor, 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
GHSA-pcc4-rvhr-2pr8 Affected Graphify Fortran extractor Versions
1 component(s)| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
graphifyy
|
PyPI |
≥ 0.7.2
< 0.9.70
|
0.9.70
|
References
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Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
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"modified" : "2026-10-19T16:52:23Z",
"published" : "2026-10-19T16:51:36Z",
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"summary" : "Graphify Fortran extractor: incomplete cpp #include hardening allows arbitrary host-file read/exfiltration when indexing an untrusted repo",
"details" : "## Summary\n\nThe Fortran extractor's C-preprocessor step (`graphify/extractors/fortran.py`, `_cpp_preprocess`) applies an incomplete `#include` hardening. The `-nostdinc -I /dev/null` flags it relies on (comment \"Security (F-007)\") do **not** stop a capital-`F` Fortran source file from including **absolute paths** (`#include \"/etc/passwd\"`) or from **path-traversing out of the corpus** (`#include \"../../../../home/victim/.ssh/id_rsa\"`). `cpp` always searches the directory of the file being preprocessed for quoted includes and always honours absolute include paths, regardless of `-nostdinc`/`-I`. As a result, indexing an untrusted repository that contains a `.F`/`.F90`/`.F95`/`.F03`/`.F08` file reads arbitrary local files off the host and inlines their contents into the knowledge graph, which is then shipped to the LLM/agent and written to the on-disk, shareable output (`graph.json`, `GRAPH_REPORT.md`, the Obsidian wiki, HTML/SVG exports).\n\nThis is the exact \"corpus-side file-exfiltration vector\" the F-007 comment says it is defending against; the mitigation is bypassable.\n\n## Severity\n\nHigh. Arbitrary local-file read on the host, triggered by graphify's core action (indexing an untrusted folder — \"turn any folder of code ... into a queryable knowledge graph\"), defeating a documented security control. It runs on the default, offline, no-API-key AST path (`graphify update .` / `graphify extract`) — no credentials, network, or LLM call required. CWE-73 (external control of file name/path) / CWE-22 (path traversal) / CWE-200 (information exposure).\n\n## Where\n\n`graphify/extractors/fortran.py`, `_cpp_preprocess()`:\n\n result = subprocess.run(\n [\"cpp\", \"-w\", \"-P\", \"-nostdinc\", \"-I\", \"/dev/null\", str(path.resolve())],\n capture_output=True, timeout=30,\n )\n\nReached from `extract_fortran()` (same file) for any suffix in `_FORTRAN_CPP_EXTS = {\".F\", \".F90\", \".F95\", \".F03\", \".F08\"}`, which are collected by default (`detect.CODE_EXTENSIONS`) and dispatched by `extract._DISPATCH`.\n\n## Why the mitigation does not work\n\n`-nostdinc` only removes the standard *system* include directories, and `-I /dev/null` only sets the *additional* search path. Neither affects:\n\n1. Absolute includes — `#include \"/etc/passwd\"` is opened directly by cpp.\n2. Quoted includes relative to the current file — cpp always searches the directory containing the file being preprocessed for `#include \"...\"`, so `#include \"../../../../etc/shadow\"` traverses out of the corpus.\n\n## Proof of concept (verified)\n\nReproduced against the shipped code with the exact command `_cpp_preprocess` builds (`cpp -w -P -nostdinc -I /dev/null <file>`), and against `extract_fortran()` directly.\n\nSecret on disk (`/tmp/secret.txt`): `TOP_SECRET_...`\n\n(a) Absolute include — `evil_abs.F90`:\n\n program evil\n #include \"/absolute/path/to/secret.txt\"\n end program evil\n\n(b) Relative traversal — `evil_rel.F90`:\n\n program evil\n #include \"../secret.txt\"\n end program evil\n\nBoth produce preprocessed output containing the full secret file contents (`\"SECRET IN OUTPUT: True\"` for both).\n\nSurfacing into the graph — `leak.F90` places the include in an identifier position via a free-form continuation so the leaked value becomes a node/edge:\n\n module m\n contains\n subroutine s\n use &\n #include \"/path/to/token.secret\"\n end subroutine s\n end module m\n\n`extract_fortran()` on this file emits a node whose label is the entire single-line contents of `token.secret` and an `imports` edge to it. That node is written to `graph.json` / `GRAPH_REPORT.md` / the wiki and returned by the MCP `query_graph` / `get_node` / `get_neighbors` tools — i.e. exfiltrated into the agent's context and into persisted, shareable artifacts.\n\nFidelity note: Fortran is case-insensitive, so captured identifiers are lower-cased. Case-insensitive secrets (file paths, hostnames, usernames, hex tokens, connection-string fragments, and the mere existence/partial content of a readable file) leak cleanly; high-entropy case-sensitive blobs (base64/JWT) are partially corrupted by the lower-casing but still confirm readability and structure. Single-token-per-line secret files (API-key files, single-line credential/token files) leak that token in full (lower-cased). Requires `cpp`/gcc on PATH (near-ubiquitous on the dev/CI hosts graphify targets); it cleanly falls back to raw bytes when absent.\n\n## Suggested fix\n\nMirror the containment approach already used elsewhere in the codebase (`_project_xml_is_safe`, `security.validate_graph_path`): before invoking cpp, scan the source for `#include` directives and **refuse or neutralise any include whose target is absolute or resolves outside the corpus/repo root**. Concretely, in `_cpp_preprocess`:\n\n- Parse `#include \"...\"` / `#include <...>` directives.\n- Resolve each target against the file's directory; if it is absolute, or its `.resolve()` escapes the scan root, strip that line (or fall back to `path.read_bytes()` with no preprocessing).\n- Only allow includes that resolve to a path inside the corpus root.\n\nA blunter but safe alternative is to strip all `#include` lines before preprocessing (macros still expand; cross-file includes lose fidelity but no host files can be read). Running cpp inside a filesystem sandbox (bwrap/unshare with only the corpus mounted) would also close it but is heavier.\n\n## Detected by\n\nAeon vuln-scanner. Semgrep flagged the Fortran subprocess path; manual review of the F-007 mitigation plus an empirical `cpp` repro confirmed the bypass.",
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