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SCA: security update for MLAlchemy (GHSA-xpm8-98mx-h4c5)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422427

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An exploitable vulnerability exists in the YAML parsing functionality in the parse_yaml_query method in
 parser.py in MLAlchemy before 0.2.2. When processing YAML-Based queries for data, a YAML parser can
 execute arbitrary Python commands resulting in command execution because load is used where safe_load
 should have been used. An attacker can insert Python into loaded YAML to trigger this vulnerability.
 (CVE-2017-16615)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpm8-98mx-h4c5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422427

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16615

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16615