YAML and Remote Code Execution
February 4, 2013
Author: Craig Stuntz
YAML’s security risks are in no way limited to Rails or Ruby. YAML documents should be treated as executable code and firewalled accordingly. Deserializing arbitrary types is user-controlled, arbitrary code execution.
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