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CVE-2017-2809
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-14T19:29:00.347 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:16:54.410

Summary

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.

Affected products

ansible-vault_project — ansible-vault

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References

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