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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-16618 json

Unsafe deserialization in owlmixin

published 2017-11-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-ccmq-qvcp-5mrm , PYSEC-2017-22 , EUVD-2017-0082

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML loading functionality of util.py in OwlMixin before 2.0.0a12. A "Load YAML" string or file (aka load_yaml or load_yamlf) can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution because load is used where safe_load should have been used. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • pypi owlmixin 2.0.0
  • owlmixin_project owlmixin 2.0.0

Exploit prediction

4.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/owlmixin/issues/12 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io https://joel-malwarebenchmark.github.io/blog/2017/11/08/cve-2017-16618-convert-through-owlmixin/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi owlmixin
<2.0.0
2.0.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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