CVE-2018-10875

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Published 2022-05-13 · Modified 2024-04-22

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.6.1+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.6.1+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.6.1+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.6.1+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.6.1+dfsg-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	ansible	`<2.4.6.0`	`2.4.6.0`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.5.0a1,<2.5.6`	`2.5.6`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.6.0a1,<2.6.1`	`2.6.1`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.6,<2.6.1`	`2.5.6`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.