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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2017-16615 EUVD-2017-0076GHSA-xpm8-98mx-h4c5PYSEC-2017-19

Unsafe deserialization in MLAlchemy

Published Nov 8, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the parse_yaml_query method in parser.py in MLAlchemy before 0.2.2. When processing YAML-Based queries for data, a YAML parser 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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI mlalchemy < 0.2.2 0.2.2 GHSA-xpm8-98mx-h4c5

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