pysec-2020-176
Vulnerability from pysec
Published
2020-02-19 04:15
Modified
2020-03-01 00:15
Details

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.




{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "pyyaml",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/pyyaml"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "5.1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.2b1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "5.1",
        "5.1.1",
        "5.1.2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2019-20477",
    "GHSA-3pqx-4fqf-j49f"
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2020-176",
  "modified": "2020-03-01T00:15:00Z",
  "published": "2020-02-19T04:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/download/47655"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/blob/master/CHANGES"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52N5XS73Z5S4ZN7I7R56ICCPCTKCUV4H/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33VBUY73AA6CTTYL3LRWHNFDULV7PFPN/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3pqx-4fqf-j49f"
    }
  ]
}


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