CVE-2014-4966
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 3.7%Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4966
Description
Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent remote data with "{{" substrings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted lookup('pipe') calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 1.6.8+dfsg-1
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 1.6.7
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527 | from 0, < 1.6.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4966
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4966
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-204.yaml
- WEBhttp://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-004.html