CVE-2019-20477 (GCVE-0-2019-20477)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-19 03:09 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:39
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Summary
PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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