Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-16763
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.019
EPSS Ranking 82.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire/
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea
- https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire/
Products affected by CVE-2017-16763
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cpe:2.3:a:confire_project:confire:0.2.0