CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-2809.md

CVE-2017-2809

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