CVE-2017-16763: Confire Project Confire

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Confire Project Confire: version 0.2.0 only

Published 2017-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.