Impact

Any optional non-boolean CLI arguments (e.g. --delim, --buf-size, --manpath) are passed through python's eval, allowing arbitrary code execution. Example:

python -m tqdm --manpath="\" + str(exec(\"import os\nos.system('echo hi && killall python3')\")) + \""

Patches

4e613f8 released in tqdm>=4.66.3

Workarounds

None

References

• https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/releases/tag/v4.66.3