Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-16615
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the parse_yaml_query method in parser.py in MLAlchemy before 0.2.2. When processing YAML-Based queries for data, 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.009
EPSS Ranking 74.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/commit/bc795757febdcce430d89f9d08f75c32d6989d3c
- https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/issues/1
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16615-critical-restful-web-applications-vulnerability/
- https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/commit/bc795757febdcce430d89f9d08f75c32d6989d3c
- https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/issues/1
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16615-critical-restful-web-applications-vulnerability/
Products affected by CVE-2017-16615
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cpe:2.3:a:mlalchemy_project:mlalchemy:0.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mlalchemy_project:mlalchemy:0.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:mlalchemy_project:mlalchemy:0.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:mlalchemy_project:mlalchemy:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:mlalchemy_project:mlalchemy:0.2.1