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CVE-2017-16763

Published: Nov 10, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

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

References

https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24

x_refsource_MISC

https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire/

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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