CVE-2017-2809

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

High · published September 14, 2017

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02991 · 87.2th percentile
Published
2017-09-14T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 SEP 19:00Z
    An exploitable vulnerability exists in the yaml loading functionality of ansible-vault before 1.0.5
    cvelistv5