CVE-2017-16764

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    CVE-2017-16764

    Published: 10 Nov 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    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/

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 76b01406aa4c25426a2c54c9bc9d61db4d603990
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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