Description
A flaw was found in ansible. ansible.cfg is read from the current working directory which can be altered to make it point to a plugin or a module path under the control of an attacker, thus allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.0
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- Unknown / ansiblen/a – n/a
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2166
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2152
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2150
- MISChttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10875
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3788
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0054
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2151
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2321
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2585
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396
- MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html