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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1923-1 ansible security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4396-1 ansible security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0016 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-fc4h-467w-46rh Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4072-1 Ansible vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T07:46:47.518Z

Reserved: 2018-05-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-10875

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-13T22:29:00.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:42:11.830

Link: CVE-2018-10875

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-06-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-10875 - Bugzilla

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