PYSEC-2020-341

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    PYSEC-2020-341

    Published: 22 May 2020Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable vulnerability exists in the configuration-loading functionality of the jw.util package before 2.3 for Python. When loading a configuration with FromString or FromStream with YAML, one can execute arbitrary Python code, resulting in OS command execution, because safe_load is not used.

    References: https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io, https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2020/04/27/cve-2020-13388-jw-util-vulnerability/, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0002/, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h72c-w3q3-55qq

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jw-util

    Purl: pkg:pypi/jw-util

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3

    Affected versions

    -class.-jw.util.version.Version-

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    PYSEC-2020-341 | CVE-DB