GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-m85c-9mf8-m2m6 Unsafe deserialization in confire
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2017-16763
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- confire
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• PyPI confire: <= 0.2.0 (no fix yet)
Description
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in config.py in Confire 0.2.0. Due to the user-specific configuration being loaded from "~/.confire.yaml" using the yaml.load function, a YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2017-16763 An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in config.py in Confire 0.2.0. vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16763 advisory
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24 web
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m85c-9mf8-m2m6 advisory
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/confire/PYSEC-2017-78.yaml web
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire web