CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-13388
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the configuration-loading functionality of the jw.util package before 2.3 for Python. When loading a configuration with FromString or FromStream with YAML, one can execute arbitrary Python code, resulting in OS command execution, because safe_load is not used.
Affected configurations
• python jw.util (< 2.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2020/04/27/cve-2020-13388-jw-util-vulnerability/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2020/04/27/cve-2020-13388-jw-util-vulnerability/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0002/ Third Party Advisory