GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4

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    GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4

    Published: 13 Jul 2018Last Modified: 3 Sept 2024

    Summary: Code injection in ansible

    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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2809, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible-vault/PYSEC-2017-5.yaml, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault, https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt, https://web.archive.org/web/20171206173637/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ansible-vault

    Purl: pkg:pypi/ansible-vault

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.5

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    1.0.1
    1.0.2
    1.0.3
    1.0.4

    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