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High · 7.8 CVE-2018-1000167 EUVD-2018-0138GHSA-7c4h-w765-6pwgPYSEC-2018-75

OISF suricata-update unsafely deserializes YAML data

Published Apr 18, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

OISF suricata-update version 1.0.0a1 contains an Insecure Deserialization vulnerability in the insecure yaml.load-Function as used in the following files: config.py:136, config.py:142, sources.py:99 and sources.py:131. The "list-sources"-command is affected by this bug. that can result in Remote Code Execution(even as root if suricata-update is called by root). This attack appears to be exploitable via a specially crafted yaml-file at https://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/rules/index.yaml. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.0.0b1.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI suricata-update < 1.0.0b1 1.0.0b1 GHSA-7c4h-w765-6pwg

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