CVE-2020-1747 Information

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.3.1 where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution when it processes untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the FullLoader loader. Applications that use the library to process untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system by abusing the python/object/new constructor.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00017.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1747 https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/pull/386 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5HEPD7LEVDPCITY5IMDYWXUMX37VFMY/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WORRFHPQVAFKKXXWLSSW6XKUYLWM6CSH/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZBJA3SGNJKCAYPSHOHWY3KBCWNM5NYK2/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8