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PyPi: Boatswain

CVE-2017-18342

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Safety vulnerability ID: 41308

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Created at Jun 27, 2018 Updated at Nov 07, 2023
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Advisory

Boatswain 1.0.4 includes a security patch for the function 'main' in 'boatswain/cli.py'. It used the unsafe yaml.load(), that allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load().
https://github.com/NLeSC/boatswain/commit/1fc3f79b8f1f2affb407c7a147cca71c11f26d3c

Affected package

boatswain

Latest version: 1.0.4

Yaml based way to build Docker images.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Boatswain version 1.0.4 includes a security patch for the function 'main' in 'boatswain/cli.py'. Use of unsafe yaml load. Allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load(). See also: https://github.com/NLeSC/boatswain/commit/1fc3f79b8f1f2affb407c7a147cca71c11f26d3c

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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