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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWNjbXEtcXZjcC01bXJt

Unsafe deserialization in owlmixin

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ccmq-qvcp-5mrm
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: over 6 years ago
Updated: about 1 hour ago

CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.01414
EPSS Percentile: 0.86214

Identifiers: GHSA-ccmq-qvcp-5mrm, CVE-2017-16618
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16618
• https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/issues/12
• https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/commit/5d0575303f6df869a515ced4285f24ba721e0d4e
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ccmq-qvcp-5mrm
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/owlmixin/PYSEC-2017-22.yaml
• https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16618-convert-through-owlmixin

Repository: https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin
Blast Radius: 6.8

Affected Packages