CVE-2017-2809

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 14, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-2809: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix