CVE-2020-13388

Summary

CVECVE-2020-13388
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-22 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-03 14:39:00 UTC
DescriptionAn exploitable vulnerability exists in the configuration-loading functionality of the jw.util package before 2.3 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Python Jw.util All All All All
Application Python Jw.util All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-13388:vulnerability in jw.util - Joel MISC joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io
CVE-2020-13388 Python Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE-2020-13394: Tenda Vulnerability MISC joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982369 Python (pip) Security Update for jw.util (GHSA-h72c-w3q3-55qq)
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