CVE-2017-2809: Code Injection

September 14, 2017 (updated October 2, 2017)

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

www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2809

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