Vulnerability GHSA-qhmp-h54x-38qr

High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 7.5
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
5 years ago
September 20, 2021 at 08:57 PM UTC
Apprise vulnerable to regex injection with IFTTT Plugin
0.0.1 - 0.9.4
0.0.1 - 0.9.4

Summary

Apprise vulnerable to regex injection with IFTTT Plugin

Details

Impact

Anyone publicly hosting the Apprise library and granting them access to the IFTTT notification service.

Patches

Update to Apprise v0.9.5.1

# Install Apprise v0.9.5.1 from PyPI
pip install apprise==0.9.5.1

The patch to the problem was performed here.

Workarounds

Alternatively, if upgrading is not an option, you can safely remove the following file:

  • apprise/plugins/NotifyIFTTT.py

The above will eliminate the ability to use IFTTT, but everything else will work smoothly.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Additional Credit

Github would not allow me to additionally credit Rasmus Petersen, but I would like to put that here at the very least - thank you for finding and reporting this issue along with those already credited

Additional Notes:

  • Github would not allow me to add/tag the 2 CWE's this issue is applicable to (only CWE-400). The other is: CWE-730 (placed in the title)

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
5 years ago
September 20, 2021 at 08:57 PM UTC
Fixed (0.9.5.1)
5 years ago
September 18, 2021 at 08:03 PM UTC
Last Modified
3 months ago
July 08, 2026 at 06:28 AM UTC