CVE-2017-2809
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 14, 2017 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:16 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsAnsible VaultVault Project Ansible Vault
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (5)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txtx_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305CVSS
7.5HIGHtalos
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-94
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