CVE-2019-20477

Summary

CVECVE-2019-20477
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-19 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:09:00 UTC
DescriptionPyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-502

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Application Pyyaml Pyyaml All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
pyyaml/CHANGES at master · yaml/pyyaml · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: PyYAML-5.3-2.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: PyYAML-5.3-2.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
www.exploit-db.com/download/47655 MISC www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: PyYAML-5.3-2.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: PyYAML-5.3-2.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159654 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for python38:3.8 (ELSA-2020-4641)
  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 940211 AlmaLinux Security Update for python38:3.8 (ALSA-2020:4641)
  • 960347 Rocky Linux Security Update for python38:3.8 (RLSA-2020:4641)
  • 982731 Python (pip) Security Update for pyyaml (GHSA-3pqx-4fqf-j49f)
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