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.
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"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:30:09Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2017-09-14T19:29:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-94"
]
}