Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-20478 - Unspecified vulnerability in Ruamel.Yaml Project Ruamel.Yaml

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
ruamel-yaml-project
critical

Summary

In ruamel.yaml through 0.16.7, the load method allows remote code execution if the application calls this method with an untrusted argument. In other words, this issue affects developers who are unaware of the need to use methods such as safe_load in these use cases.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Ruamel.Yaml_Project
209