Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting ansible package, versions <0:2.9.4-1.el7ae


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ANSIBLE-3374367
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed27 Nov 2019

Introduced: 27 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-14905  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ansible to version 0:2.9.4-1.el7ae or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:0215.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible package and not the ansible package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS command injections. This could result in a loss of confidentiality of the system among other issues.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1