CVE-2017-16763
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 10, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 10, 2017
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.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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