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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-7537

An issue was discovered in Donfig 0.3.0. There is a vulnerability in the collect_yaml method in config_obj.py. It can execute arbitrary Python commands, resulting in command execution.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:04 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-7537

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Mar 2019, 20:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Donfig 0.3.0. There is a vulnerability in the collect_yaml method in config_obj.py. It can execute arbitrary Python commands, resulting in command execution.

osv:CVE-2019-7537
Complete source record
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