What is CVE-2019-7537?

CVE-2019-7537 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pytroll Donfig, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-03-21.

How severe is CVE-2019-7537?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Pytroll Donfig

CVE-2019-7537

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2019-03-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.034 (88.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.034 · change: +0.003

Affected products

Pytroll Donfig — versions 0.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

github.com/pytroll/donfig/issues/5 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/pytroll/donfig/commits/master (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-7537?: CVE-2019-7537 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pytroll Donfig, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-03-21.
How severe is CVE-2019-7537?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.