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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2017-16618 EUVD-2017-0082GHSA-ccmq-qvcp-5mrmPYSEC-2017-22

Unsafe deserialization in owlmixin

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

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI owlmixin < 2.0.0 2.0.0 GHSA-ccmq-qvcp-5mrm

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