CVE-2017-16615: Mlalchemy Project Mlalchemy

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the parse_yaml_query 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 safe_load should have been used. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Mlalchemy Project Mlalchemy: version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.1.3 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.2.1 only

Published 2017-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.