Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting django_make_app package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.35% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGOMAKEAPP-40707
  • published28 Nov 2017
  • disclosed9 Nov 2017
  • creditJoel-MalwareBenchmark

Introduced: 9 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16764  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fix version for django_make_app.

Overview

django_make_app is define models and fields using YAML and generate app for Django with views, forms, templates etc.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the read_yaml_file method in io_utils.py in django_make_app 0.1.3. A YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.

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