cve/2017/CVE-2017-2809.md

### [CVE-2017-2809](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2809)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=ansible-vault&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=code%20execution&color=brighgreen)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon