CVSS 3.0
7.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-2809
High (7.8) in ansible-vault project ansible-vault. EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ansible-vault 1.0.5.
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
- EPSS
- 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ansible-vault_project:ansible-vault
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4 | PyPI | ansible-vault | <1.0.5 | 1.0.5 |
| PYSEC-2017-5 | PyPI | ansible-vault | <1.0.5 | 1.0.5 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305