check-jsonschema default caching for remote schemas allows for cache confusion
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
check-jsonschema is a CLI and set of pre-commit hooks for jsonschema validation. The default cache strategy uses the basename of a remote schema as the name of the file in the cache, e.g. `https://example.org/schema.json` will be stored as `schema.json`. This naming allows for conflicts. If an attacker can get a user to run `check-jsonschema` against a malicious schema URL, e.g., `https://example.evil.org/schema.json`, they can insert their own schema into the cache and it will be picked up and used instead of the appropriate schema. Such a cache confusion attack could be used to allow data to pass validation which should have been rejected. This issue has been patched in version 0.30.0. All users are advised to upgrade. A few workarounds exist: 1. Users can use `--no-cache` to disable caching. 2. Users can use `--cache-filename` to select filenames for use in the cache, or to ensure that other usages do not overwrite the cached schema. (Note: this flag is being deprecated as part of the remediation effort.) 3. Users can explicitly download the schema before use as a local file, as in `curl -LOs https://example.org/schema.json; check-jsonschema --schemafile ./schema.json`
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-jsonschema | check-jsonschema | before 0.30.0 | 0.30.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | check-jsonschema (PyPI) | before 0.30.0 | 0.30.0 | Patch available | GHSA-q6mv-284r-mp36 |
- check-jsonschema Vendorpython-jsonschema Affected before 0.30.0 Fixed in 0.30.0 Patch available CNA
- check-jsonschema (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.30.0 Fixed in 0.30.0 Patch available GHSA-q6mv-284r-mp36
Remediation
- Fix · CNA check-jsonschema (python-jsonschema) Fixed in 0.30.0
- Fix · GHSA-q6mv-284r-mp36 check-jsonschema (PyPI) Fixed in 0.30.0 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-53848
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q6mv-284r-mp36
References
Sources
- CVE-2024-53848 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-53848 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-q6mv-284r-mp36 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-53848 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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