test: Correcting cloudformation export tests to use yaml.safe_load()

[ca-nguyen]

Description

PyYAML deprecated use of yaml.load() function without Loader argument since 5.1 (see deprecation doc).

Fixes failing Codebuild unit tests (see failing Codebuild logs in PR #166)

Why is the change necessary?

Unit test test_cloudformation_export_with_sagemaker_execution_role started failing on 10/14 due to upgrade of PyYAML from 5.4.41 to 6.0.0 with error:

TypeError: load() missing 1 required positional argument: 'Loader'

PyYAML introduced changes in 6.0.0 to always require Loader arg to yaml.load() (see release notes). The use of yaml.load() without Loader argument has been deprecated with warning since 5.1, but was tolerated before the breaking change in v6.0.0.

Solution

Call yaml.safe_load() instead of yaml.load() which was deemed unsafe since its release in 2006.

PyYAML has always provided a safe_load function that can load a subset of YAML without exploit.

Updated existing tests instead of freezing PyYAML to v5.4.1 because:

1. yaml.safe_load() is safer than yaml.load() per PyYAML recommendation: it uses a SafeLoader instead of a FullLoader which allows exploits on untrusted input (see deprecation doc for more details)
2. Requires minimal change: Only 2 tests call yaml.load()
   • test_cloudformation_export_with_simple_definition
   • test_cloudformation_export_with_sagemaker_execution_role

Testing

Ran the unit tests locally and confirmed they passed.

pip install ".[test]"
tox -v tests/unit

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[shivlaks]

thanks for making this fix!! please mark it ready for review when you've filled in any missing details, but LGTM.

nit: the checkboxes in your CR summary have spaces, which is why they don't render To correct, please change them to [x]

[ca-nguyen]

Thanks for the fast review @shivlaks ! Marking as ready for review!