CVE-2021-38305

Summary

CVECVE-2021-38305
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-09 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-17 18:46:00 UTC
Description23andMe Yamale before 3.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted schema file. The schema parser uses eval as part of its processing, and tries to protect from malicious expressions by limiting the builtins that are passed to the eval. When processing the schema, each line is run through Python's eval function to make the validator available. A well-constructed string within the schema rules can execute system commands; thus, by exploiting the vulnerability, an attacker can run arbitrary code on the image that invokes Yamale.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-434

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application 23andme Yamale All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release 3.0.8 · 23andMe/Yamale · GitHub MISC github.com
Limit the strings which can be eval'd by mildebrandt · Pull Request #165 · 23andMe/Yamale · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981457 Python (pip) Security Update for yamale (GHSA-435p-f82x-mxwm)

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