CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16618
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML loading functionality of util.py in OwlMixin before 2.0.0a12. A "Load YAML" string or file (aka load_yaml or load_yamlf) can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution because load is used where safe_load should have been used. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• owlmixin project owlmixin (< 2.0.0)
• owlmixin project owlmixin 2.0.0
References
- https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/commit/5d0575303f6df869a515ced4285f24ba721e0d4e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/issues/12 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16618-convert-through-owlmixin/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/commit/5d0575303f6df869a515ced4285f24ba721e0d4e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/issues/12 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16618-convert-through-owlmixin/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory