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Code injection in ymlref

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 19, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 16, 2023

Package

pip ymlref (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.1.1

Patched versions

None

Description

ymlref is a library that allows to load Yaml documents and resolve JSON-pointer references inside them. ymlref versions up to 0.1.1 allow code injection.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 19, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Aug 16, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-20133

GHSA ID

GHSA-8r8j-xvfj-36f9

Source code

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