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Case File

CVE-2017-16763

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 4.47% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-11-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

AI analysis pending.

Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit
GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

Note: these links are listed for security research and verification purposes only.

CVE
CVE-2017-16763
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.47%

Original Filing — NVD Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in config.py in Confire 0.2.0. Due to the user-specific configuration being loaded from "~/.confire.yaml" using the yaml.load function, a YAML parser can execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.