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CVE-2017-2809

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Date: September 14, 2017

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.

Language: Python

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Related Resources (11)

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

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Code Injection

CWE-94

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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