CVE-2017-16764: Django Make App Project Django Make App

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the read_yaml_file method in io_utils.py in django_make_app 0.1.3. 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

• Django Make App Project Django Make App: version 0.1.3 only

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