CVE-2020-13388: OS Command Injection

May 22, 2020 (updated May 28, 2020)

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the configuration-loading functionality of the jw.util package 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

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13388

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