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CVE-2020-13388 (GCVE-0-2020-13388)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-22 16:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:18
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Summary
An 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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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