CVE-2019-14905

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Published 2021-04-20 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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.

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	`2.9.4+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.9.4+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.9.4+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.9.4+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.9.4+dfsg-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.7.0a1,<2.7.16`	`2.7.16`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.8.0a1,<2.8.8`	`2.8.8`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.9.0a1,<2.9.3`	`2.9.3`
PyPI	ansible	`>=2.9.0,<2.9.3`	`2.7.16`

References

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

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