Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.5.6)[2.6.0,2.6.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-2407598
  • published20 Feb 2022
  • disclosed13 Jul 2018
  • creditAdam Mariš

Introduced: 13 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-10875  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.5.6, 2.6.1 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution in ansible.cfg which is read from the current working directory, can be altered to make it point to a plugin or a module path under the control of an attacker.

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