Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting django-piston package, versions [,0.2.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.82% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGOPISTON-40674
  • published30 Oct 2017
  • disclosed1 Nov 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Nov 2011

CVE-2011-4103  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-95  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

django-piston s a Django mini-framework creating APIs.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution attacks.

emitters.py in Django Piston before 0.2.3 and 0.2.x before 0.2.2.1 does not properly deserialize YAML data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via vectors related to the yaml.load method.

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