CVE-2017-2809

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-2809
  • Assigner
  • talos-cna@cisco.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-09-14T19:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-04-19T19:15:21
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-94 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:ansible-vault_project:ansible-vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.0.4
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2809
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2809
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-04-20 17:00:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 21:04:24 2017-09-14T19:29Z 2017-09-14T19:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 21:04:24 2022-04-19T19:15:21 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 21:04:24 Modified Vulnerability Status updated