Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting planemo package, versions [,0.59.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PLANEMO-450916
  • published25 Jun 2019
  • disclosed16 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Apr 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade planemo to version 0.59.0 or higher.

Overview

planemo is a command-line utilities library to assist in building tools for the Galaxy project.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to using the insecure yaml.load() function. Default behavior of PyYAML's yaml.load() method is unsafe and can execute code stored/provided in yaml files.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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