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tomoh1r/ansible-vault · Security

Code injection in ansible

GHSA ID
GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4
CVE ID
CVE-2017-2809
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
7.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4
8.5 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

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.

CWEs

  • CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

References