Vulnerability CVE-2017-16616


Published: 2017-11-07   Modified: 2017-11-08

Description:
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the YAMLParser method in Interfaces.py in PyAnyAPI before 0.6.1. A YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution because load is used where safe_load should have been used. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Pyanyapi project -> Pyanyapi 

 References:
https://github.com/Stranger6667/pyanyapi/issues/41
https://github.com/Stranger6667/pyanyapi/releases/tag/0.6.1
https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16616-yamlparser-in-pyanyapi/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyanyapi/0.6.1

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