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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Tomohiro Nakamura ansible-vault
1.0.4affected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824 ↗
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt ↗
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4 ↗
- https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04 ↗
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305 ↗