CVE-2017-2809

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    CVE-2017-2809

    Published: 14 Sept 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v1.0.4
    v1.0.3
    v1.0.2
    v1.0.1
    v1.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High