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CVE-2017-18342

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Safety vulnerability ID: 41332

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Created at Jun 27, 2018 Updated at Dec 05, 2024
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Advisory

Installtool 1.0 includes a security patch for the function 'XEQ' in 'installtool.py'. It used the unsafe yaml.load(), that allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load().
https://github.com/l0r3zz/public/commit/ab00de531d125629c11811473bfee9e4063572b2#diff-4f5fe0b656de6953412f12024a4e76b35b618409e88f79d86e52c52c020dac58

Affected package

installtool

Latest version: 1.0

Perform remote installs using yaml runbooks

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Installtool version 1.0 includes a security patch for the function 'XEQ' in 'installtool.py'. Use of unsafe yaml load. Allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load(). See also: https://github.com/l0r3zz/public/commit/ab00de531d125629c11811473bfee9e4063572b2#diff-4f5fe0b656de6953412f12024a4e76b35b618409e88f79d86e52c52c020dac58

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.8

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.8
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

HIGH 7.5
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL