MLAlchemy Command Execution Vulnerability

MLAlchemy is a Python based open source utility library that converts YAML/JSON to SQLAlchemy SELECT queries. A security vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality of the parseyamlquery method of the arser.py file in versions of MLAlchemy prior to 0.2.2. An attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2017-16615: Undefined Security Weakness

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the parseyamlquery method in parser.py in MLAlchemy before 0.2.2. When processing YAML-Based queries for data, a YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution because load is used where...