CVE-2019-20477

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20477
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20477.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-20477
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-02-19T04:15:10.803Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:28:57.714434Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/yaml/pyyaml

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml
Events
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "5.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "5.1.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "30"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "31"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20477.json"