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CVE-2017-2809

Published: Sep 14, 2017

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.5

HIGH

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Tomohiro Nakamura	ansible-vault	affected `1.0.4`

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305

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