CVE-2017-16763

Published November 10th, 2017

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

7.5

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

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.

bbengfort/confire

A simple app configuration scheme using YAML and class based defaults.

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