{"id":"CVE-2017-16763","details":"An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in config.py in Confire 0.2.0. Due to the user-specific configuration being loaded from \"~/.confire.yaml\" using the yaml.load function, a YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.","aliases":["GHSA-m85c-9mf8-m2m6","PYSEC-2017-78"],"modified":"2026-03-10T14:22:19.415753Z","published":"2017-11-10T09:29:00.363Z","references":[{"type":"WEB"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/commit/8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/bbengfort/confire/issues/24"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/12/cve-2017-16763-configure-loaded-through-confire/"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/bbengfort/confire","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9167120bfd76eceff96d499f8838bc3d3907a89a"},{"fixed":"8cc86a5ec2327e070f1d576d61bbaadf861597ea"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.2.0"}]}}],"versions":["v0.1.0","v0.1.1","v0.2.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16763.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}