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.
Published: 2017-09-14
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0001 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4 Code injection in ansible
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Ansible-vault Project Ansible-vault
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:53:03.863Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-2809

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-14T19:29:00.347

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-2809

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