Critical, CVSS 10.0PyPIAmendedPublished
EPyT-Flow vulnerable to unsafe JSON deserialization (__type__)
CVE-2026-25632 · GHSA-74vm-8frp-7w68
- Affected
- PyPI epyt-flow < 0.16.1
- Fixed in
- 0.16.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact EPyT-Flow’s REST API parses attacker-controlled JSON request bodies using a custom deserializer (my_load_from_json) that supports a type field. When type is present, the deserializer dynamically imports an attacker-specified module/class and instantiates it with attacker-supplied arguments. This allows invoking dangerous classes such as subprocess.Popen, which can lead to OS command execution during JSON parsing. This also affects the loading of JSON files. Patches EPyT-Flow has been patched in 0.16.1 -- affects all versions <= 0.16.0 Workarounds Do not load any JSON from untrusted sources and do not expose the REST API. Credits EPyT-Flow thanks Jarrett Chan (@syphonetic) for detecting and reporting the bug.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.16.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.