CVE-2017-16615

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    CVE-2017-16615

    Published: 8 Nov 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    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.

    References: https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16615-critical-restful-web-applications-vulnerability/, https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/commit/bc795757febdcce430d89f9d08f75c32d6989d3c, https://github.com/thanethomson/MLAlchemy/issues/1

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 99e36e744d9b430b5cdb4c5a202d8142d5fba9f1
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.1
    0.1.2
    0.1.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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