CVE-2017-2809 – ansible-vault

Package

Manager: pip
Name: ansible-vault
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <1.0.5

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00664 pctl0.70308

Details

Code injection in ansible 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.

Metadata

Created: 2018-07-13T15:16:54Z
Modified: 2024-09-03T21:23:13Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/07/GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4/GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-94"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4
Finding: F422
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