CVE-2019-20477

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-502

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 19, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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