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CVE-2017-16618

Published: Nov 8, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/commit/5d0575303f6df869a515ced4285f24ba721e0d4e

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16618-convert-through-owlmixin/

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/issues/12

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