Critical
Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-7537
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- 31 Oct 2026, 11:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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