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CVE-2017-2809GHSA-C2W9-48QC-QPJ4PYSEC-2017-5

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the yaml loading functionality of ansible-vault before 1.0.5.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.0.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Tomohiro Nakamura ansible-vault

    1.0.4

  • ansible-vaultPyPI

    fixed in 1.0.5

  • ansible-vaultPyPI

    fixed in 1.0.5

References 5

securityfocus.com

GitHub · tomoh1r/ansible-vault

talosintelligence.com