CVE-2017-2809
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the yaml loading functionality of ansible-vault before 1.0.5. A specially crafted vault can execute…
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- talos
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By talos
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| talosCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- code execution
- CWE-94 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-94 and its CVEs
Affected products
Tomohiro Nakamura · ansible-vault
- affected 1.0.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansible-vaultGHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- 100824 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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