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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SIMIKI-1570716
  • published29 Aug 2021
  • disclosed29 Aug 2021
  • creditTrex-tbag

Introduced: 29 Aug 2021

CVE-2020-19001  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

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

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