CVE-2017-16763

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    CVE-2017-16763

    Published: 10 Nov 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in config.py in Confire 0.2.0. Due to the user-specific configuration being loaded from "~/.confire.yaml" using the yaml.load function, a YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea, https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24, https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 9167120bfd76eceff96d499f8838bc3d3907a89a
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.2.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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