{"id":"CVE-2017-2809","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4","PYSEC-2017-5"],"modified":"2026-04-02T00:10:31.501717Z","published":"2017-09-14T19:29:00.347Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"fb3c4a05df7249e9f0724d573d2b023298c9f8e4"},{"fixed":"3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.0.4"}]}}],"versions":["v1.0.0","v1.0.1","v1.0.2","v1.0.3","v1.0.4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2809.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}