In short
- CVE-2017-16764 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting django-make-app, django make app (django make app project).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.3% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
Description
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the read_yaml_file method in io_utils.py in django_make_app 0.1.3. 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 the read_yaml_file method in io_utils.py in django_make_app 0.1.3. 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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