CVE-2017-16764
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the read_yaml_file method in io_utils.py in django_make_app 0.1.3. A YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-11-10
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/illagrenan/django-make-app/issues/5
- https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16764-vulnerability-in-django-make-app/