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CVE-2017-16615

UNKNOWN
Published 2017-11-08T03:00:00
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Description

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.

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GitHub Security Advisories

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✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL

Unsafe deserialization in MLAlchemy

GHSA-xpm8-98mx-h4c5

Advisory Details

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.

Affected Packages

PyPI MLAlchemy
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <0.2.2

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

9.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16615
WEB https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/issues/1
WEB https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/commit/bc795757febdcce430d89f9d08f75c32d6989d3c
WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mlalchemy/PYSEC-2017-19.yaml
PACKAGE https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy
WEB https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16615-critical-restful-web-applications-vulnerability

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: July 13, 2018, Modified: September 24, 2024

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/
Published: 2017-11-08T03:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T20:27:04.283Z
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