CVE-2017-2809
Code injection in ansible
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.46%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-2809
To remediate CVE-2017-2809, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.5 or later
- —upgrade to 3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 or later
Is CVE-2017-2809 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.0.5
- from 0, < 3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 | from 0, < 1.0.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |