In short
- CVE-2017-16763 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting confire, confire (confire project).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.5%, higher than 91.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| confire PyPI | ≥ 0.1.0≤ 0.2.0
| No fix yet |
| confire | = 0.2.0
| No fix yet |
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.
NVD 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.
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