vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2810: Tablib: Arbitrary command execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 14, 2017
Added
Nov 27, 2018
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the Databook loading functionality of Tablib 0.11.4. A yaml loaded Databook can execute arbitrary python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert python into loaded yaml to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-tablib
Title
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