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CVE-2017-16763

N/A
Published: November 10, 2017 at 09:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:09 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorConfire

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire/

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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