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CVE-2019-17526

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

An issue was discovered in SageMath Sage Cell Server through 2019-10-05. Python Code Injection can occur in the context of an internet facing web application. Malicious actors can execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system, as demonstrated by an __import__('os').popen('whoami').read() line. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the product is "vulnerable by design" and the current behavior will be retained

Affected products

• Sagemathcell: all versions

References

• https://gist.github.com/barrett092/0380a1c34c014e29b827d1f408381525
• https://github.com/sagemath/sagecell/commits/master
• https://sethsec.blogspot.com/2016/11/exploiting-python-code-injection-in-web.html
• https://gist.github.com/barrett092/0380a1c34c014e29b827d1f408381525
• https://github.com/sagemath/sagecell/commits/master
• https://sethsec.blogspot.com/2016/11/exploiting-python-code-injection-in-web.html

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