Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

rasahq/rasa

              3.6.x @ 60a3cff
            

Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

63.2%

Coverage

Highlights

Denial of Service: 7 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.

rasa/utils/io.py: most-fixed (4 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.

13 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Deserialization of Untrusted Data: The project relied on unsafe Python pickle/joblib and generic serializations to load model configurations, exposing Rasa to remote code execution when loading untrusted model configurations. This was migrated to json, safetensors, and skops.

Path Traversal: Insecure model archive extraction using standard tarfile extractall allowed arbitrary file overwrites via directory traversal, culminating in CVE-2021-41127. The project transitioned to a tarsafe wrapper to block path traversal.

Auth Bypass: Slack webhook endpoints lacked signature verification using the signing secret, allowing remote attackers to spoof incoming interactive payloads and messages.