Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting simiki package, versions [,1.6.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SIMIKI-1570716
  • published 29 Aug 2021
  • disclosed 29 Aug 2021
  • credit Trex-tbag

How to fix?

Upgrade simiki to version 1.6.2.2 or higher.

Overview

simiki is a Simiki is a simple wiki framework, written in Python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to an unsafe yaml load in the simiki/blob/master/simiki/config.py component. This may allow instantiation of arbitrary objects when loading a malicious _config.xml file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.6 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

9.8 critical