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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWMydzktNDhxYy1xcGo0

Code injection in ansible

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 6 years ago
Updated: 4 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.0047
EPSS Percentile: 0.75888

Identifiers: GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4, CVE-2017-2809
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2809
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible-vault/PYSEC-2017-5.yaml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20171206173637/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824

Repository: https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault
Blast Radius: 14.8

Affected Packages