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CVE-2017-18342

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Safety vulnerability ID: 41397

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

Trackthenews 0.1.10 includes a security patch for the function 'main' in 'trackthenews/core.py'. It used the unsafe yaml.load(), that allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load().
https://github.com/freedomofpress/trackthenews/commit/7ef1ae9d3ac2793e55d9df4161eddb46ff9a9fde

Affected package

trackthenews

Latest version: 0.4

Monitor RSS feeds for keywords and act on matching results. A special project of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Trackthenews version 0.1.10 includes a security patch for the function 'main' in 'trackthenews/core.py'. Use of unsafe yaml load. Allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load(). See also: https://github.com/freedomofpress/trackthenews/commit/7ef1ae9d3ac2793e55d9df4161eddb46ff9a9fde

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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