An exploitable vulnerability exists in the Databook loading functionality of Tablib 0.11.4. A yaml loaded Databook can execute arbitrary python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert python into loaded yaml to trigger this vulnerability.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2810
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-18
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0307
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99076
- https://github.com/jazzband/tablib/commit/69abfc3ada5d754cb152119c0b4777043657cb6e
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gcr6-rf47-jrgf