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.
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"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-502"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-08T19:24:04Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL",
"nvd_published_at": "2020-02-19T04:15:00Z"
}