CVE-2019-20477 (GCVE-0-2019-20477)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-02-19 03:09
Modified
2024-08-05 02:39
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/blob/master/CHANGESRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33VBUY73AA6CTTYL3LRWHNFDULV7PFPN/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52N5XS73Z5S4ZN7I7R56ICCPCTKCUV4H/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/47655Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/blob/master/CHANGESRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33VBUY73AA6CTTYL3LRWHNFDULV7PFPN/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52N5XS73Z5S4ZN7I7R56ICCPCTKCUV4H/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/download/47655Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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