Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-1747 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.3.1, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution when it processes untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the FullLoader loader. Applications that use the library to process untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system by abusing the python/object/new constructor.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 15 | |
Application | 1 | |
OS | 4 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-BDB0BFA928.NASL description - New upstream release 5.3.1 (rhbz#1814882) - Fixes CVE-2020-1747 (rhbz#1807367,1809011) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-03 modified 2020-03-30 plugin id 134996 published 2020-03-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134996 title Fedora 31 : PyYAML (2020-bdb0bfa928) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2020-bdb0bfa928. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(134996); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/04/02"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-1747"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2020-bdb0bfa928"); script_name(english:"Fedora 31 : PyYAML (2020-bdb0bfa928)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: " - New upstream release 5.3.1 (rhbz#1814882) - Fixes CVE-2020-1747 (rhbz#1807367,1809011) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-bdb0bfa928" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected PyYAML package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:PyYAML"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/03/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^31([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 31", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC31", reference:"PyYAML-5.3.1-1.fc31")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "PyYAML"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-1_0-0290_PYYAML.NASL description An update of the PyYAML package has been released. last seen 2020-05-03 modified 2020-04-29 plugin id 136104 published 2020-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136104 title Photon OS 1.0: Pyyaml PHSA-2020-1.0-0290 NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2020-0959-1.NASL description This update for python-PyYAML fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-1747: Fixed an arbitrary code execution when YAML files are parsed by FullLoader (bsc#1165439). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-16 modified 2020-04-10 plugin id 135390 published 2020-04-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135390 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : python-PyYAML (SUSE-SU-2020:0959-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-630.NASL description This update for python-PyYAML fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-1747: Fixed an arbitrary code execution when YAML files are parsed by FullLoader (bsc#1165439). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project. last seen 2020-05-15 modified 2020-05-11 plugin id 136456 published 2020-05-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136456 title openSUSE Security Update : python-PyYAML (openSUSE-2020-630) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-507.NASL description This update for python-PyYAML fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-1747: Fixed an arbitrary code execution when YAML files are parsed by FullLoader (bsc#1165439). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project. last seen 2020-04-17 modified 2020-04-14 plugin id 135451 published 2020-04-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135451 title openSUSE Security Update : python-PyYAML (openSUSE-2020-507) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-3_0-0080_PYYAML.NASL description An update of the PyYAML package has been released. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-21 plugin id 135789 published 2020-04-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135789 title Photon OS 3.0: Pyyaml PHSA-2020-3.0-0080 NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-40C35D7B37.NASL description - New upstream release 5.3.1 (rhbz#1814882) - Fixes CVE-2020-1747 (rhbz#1807367,1809011) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-03 modified 2020-03-30 plugin id 134991 published 2020-03-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134991 title Fedora 30 : PyYAML (2020-40c35d7b37) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_AAE8FECF888E11EA971408002718DE91.NASL description Riccardo Schirone (https://github.com/ret2libc) reports : In FullLoader python/object/new constructor, implemented by construct_python_object_apply, has support for setting the state of a deserialized instance through the set_python_instance_state method. After setting the state, some operations are performed on the instance to complete its initialization, however it is possible for an attacker to set the instance last seen 2020-05-03 modified 2020-04-28 plugin id 136021 published 2020-04-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136021 title FreeBSD : py-yaml -- FullLoader (still) exploitable for arbitrary command execution (aae8fecf-888e-11ea-9714-08002718de91) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-2_0-0229_PYYAML.NASL description An update of the PyYAML package has been released. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-22 plugin id 135866 published 2020-04-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135866 title Photon OS 2.0: Pyyaml PHSA-2020-2.0-0229 NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2020-1285-1.NASL description This update for python-PyYAML fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-1747: Fixed an arbitrary code execution when YAML files are parsed by FullLoader (bsc#1165439). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2020-05-22 plugin id 136784 published 2020-05-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136784 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python-PyYAML (SUSE-SU-2020:1285-1)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1747
- https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/pull/386
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00017.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WORRFHPQVAFKKXXWLSSW6XKUYLWM6CSH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZBJA3SGNJKCAYPSHOHWY3KBCWNM5NYK2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K5HEPD7LEVDPCITY5IMDYWXUMX37VFMY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMQXSZXNJT6ERABJZAAICI3DQSQLCP3D/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7PPAS6C4SZRDQLR7C22A5U3QOLXY33JX/