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CVE-2020-13388

9.8 criticalEPSS 4.5%

Critical (9.8) in python jw.util. EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in jw-util 2.3.

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the configuration-loading functionality of the jw.util package before 2.3 for Python. When loading a configuration with FromString or FromStream with YAML, one can execute arbitrary Python code, resulting in OS command execution, because safe_load is not used.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-78
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-h72c-w3q3-55qqPyPIjw-util<2.32.3
PYSEC-2020-341PyPIjw-util<2.32.3

References

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