Arbitrary Command Execution in Ansible-Vault YAML Loading

CVE-2017-2809 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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