Security advisory

{
  "id": "bbd109e16fa480171fff3547367b6add217e99adbb339982c12e20291b3de936",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-2809",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-2809",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-2809",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-2809",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-2809",
        "GHSA-c2w9-48qc-qpj4",
        "PYSEC-2017-5"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "fb3c4a05df7249e9f0724d573d2b023298c9f8e4"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ansible-vault_project:ansible-vault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.0.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.0.4",
            "v1.0.3",
            "v1.0.2",
            "v1.0.1",
            "v1.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2809.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:50.090110442Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txt",
        "https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04",
        "https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4",
        "https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-2809",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380385,
  "published_at": "2017-09-14T19:29:00.347+00:00"
}