CVE-2017-2809 (GCVE-0-2017-2809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-14 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:53
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • code execution
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Tomohiro Nakamura ansible-vault Affected: 1.0.4
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