Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by marcusb on Sunday April 06, 2025 @02:31PM
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CVSS, at least in its current form, needs to be taken out back and shot. See, for instance, https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/
Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by buu700 on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:06PM
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I like the idea of CVSS, but it's definitely less precise than I'd like as-is. e.g. I've found that most issues which I would normally think of as low-severity get bumped up to medium by CVSS just for being network-based attack vectors, even if the actual issue is extremely edge case, extremely complex and/or computationally expensive to exploit, or not clearly exploitable at all.
Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by tptacek on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:57PM
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There's no such thing as CVE inflation because CVEs don't have scores. You're grumbling about CVSS inflation. But: CVSS has always been flawed, and never should have been taken seriously.
Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by sean_flanigan on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:08AM
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Those CVE numbers go up every year… Sounds like inflation to me! ;-)
Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by kevincox on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:49PM
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But Parquet is intended to be a safe format. So importing a malicious file should still be safe.
Like if a browser had a vulnerability parsing HTML of course it is a major concern because very often browsers to parse HTML from untrusted parties.
Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by mr_mitm on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:58PM
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Why is "user interaction: none" though? There should be reasoning attached to the CVSS vector in these CVEs.
Re:Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Pa...
by StressedDev on Sunday April 06, 2025 @05:21PM
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Probably because there are services (AKA web services, software listening on a network port, etc.) out there which accept arbitrary Parquet files. This seems like a safe assumption given lots of organizations use micro-services or cloud venders use the same software on the same machine to process requests from different customers. This is a bad bug and if you use the affected code, you should update immediately.
Grumbling about CVE inflation