CVE-2017-16763
Unsafe deserialization in confire
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.9%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-16763
To remediate CVE-2017-16763, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea or later
Is CVE-2017-16763 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, <= 0.2.0
- from 0, < 8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea | >= 0.1.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |