Security Advisory
CVE-2019-17526
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
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 vendors position is that the product is "vulnerable by design" and the current behavior will be retained