High, CVSS 8.5PyPIAmendedPublished
Code injection in ansible
CVE-2017-2809 · GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4
- Affected
- PyPI ansible-vault < 1.0.5
- Fixed in
- 1.0.5· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- 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.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.0.5 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.