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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt | Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 | Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published: 2017-09-14T00:00:00
Updated: 2022-04-19T18:22:35
Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-2809
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-09-14T19:29:00.347
Modified: 2022-04-19T19:15:21.813
Link: CVE-2017-2809
JSON object: View
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