FKIE_CVE-2017-16616

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-11-08 03:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:09
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the YAMLParser method in Interfaces.py in PyAnyAPI before 0.6.1. 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Stranger6667/pyanyapi/issues/41Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Stranger6667/pyanyapi/releases/tag/0.6.1Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16616-yamlparser-in-pyanyapi/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyanyapi/0.6.1Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Stranger6667/pyanyapi/issues/41Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Stranger6667/pyanyapi/releases/tag/0.6.1Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16616-yamlparser-in-pyanyapi/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyanyapi/0.6.1Product
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pyanyapi_project pyanyapi *
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