CVE-2019-20477 (GCVE-0-2019-20477)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-02-19 03:09
Modified
2024-08-05 02:39
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.
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