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CVE-2017-16763
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-10T09:29:00.363 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:09:53.080

Summary

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.

Affected products

confire_project — confire

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References

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