Vulnerability in pytest
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71176 has been found in pytest.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade pytest to 9.0.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "pytest CVE-2025-71176" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-71176 (pytest) — CWE-379
Attack vector: local / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 9.0.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-379) exists in pytest.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of pytest.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 9.0.3.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'pytest' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'pytest' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
pytestを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Apply patchpatch
Upgrade pytest to 9.0.3ステージング環境で 9.0.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | pytest |
< 9.0.3 |
9.0.3 |
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71176 pytest
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71176 pytest
Original description The description as published by the source.
pytest through 9.0.2 on UNIX relies on directories with the /tmp/pytest-of-{user} name pattern, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- package github.com
- package pypi.org
- report github.com
- web openwall.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com