CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-2809
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the yaml loading functionality of ansible-vault before 1.0.5. A specially crafted vault can execute arbitrary python commands resulting in command execution. An attacker can insert python into the vault to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• ansible-vault project ansible-vault (<= 1.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305 Exploit, Third Party Advisory