CVE-2019-20477

Description

PyYAML 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 Information

Base Score

9.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.434

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-20477 are fixed in Python-pyyaml 5.2	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-20477 are fixed in Python-pyyaml for linux 5.2	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234