CVE-2017-2809

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.

• CWE-94

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txtThird Party Advisory
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4Third Party Advisory
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100824Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/blob/v1.0.5/CHANGES.txtThird Party Advisory
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/commit/3f8f659ef443ab870bb19f95d43543470168ae04Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/tomoh1r/ansible-vault/issues/4Third Party Advisory
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0305Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 14, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

• How Strix found a critical auth bypass in etcdStrix autonomously discovered a critical authentication bypass in etcd, later designated CVE-2026-33413.
• Autonomous PentestingAI agents that find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities like this one across your applications.
• PR ReviewsPentest every pull request so vulnerable code is caught before it ships to production.
• AI Penetration TestingHow AI-driven penetration testing continuously covers your attack surface.

• CVE-2017-2803A remote out of bound write vulnerability exists in the TIFF…8.8
• CVE-2017-2804A remote out of bound write vulnerability exists in the TIFF…8.8
• CVE-2017-2805An exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exi…9.8
• CVE-2017-2806An exploitable arbitrary read exists in the XLS parsing of t…4.3
• CVE-2017-2807An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the t…7.5
• CVE-2017-2808An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the ac…7.5
• CVE-2017-2810An exploitable vulnerability exists in the Databook loading …7.5
• CVE-2017-2811A code execution vulnerability exists in the Kakadu SDK 7.9'…8.8
• CVE-2017-2812A code execution vulnerability exists in the kdu_buffered_ex…8.8
• CVE-2017-2813An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the …8.8
• CVE-2017-2814An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the ima…7.5
• CVE-2017-2815An exploitable XML entity injection vulnerability exists in …8.1