CVE-2018-10874
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.05%Ansible Improper Input Validation vulnerability
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
In ansible it was found that inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command which are under attacker's control, allowing to run arbitrary code as a result.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.6.1+dfsg-1
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.4.6.0
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.4.6.0, >= 2.5, < 2.5.6, >= 2.6, < 2.6.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (23)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10874
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10874
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3788
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2150
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2151
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2152
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2166
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2321
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2585
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0054
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10874
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1596528
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10874
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/10d6fe6c98cfee9a7be0fea6102ba5dec951aec7
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1f80949f964a946773f9d3ac1899535bd2cc2b8e
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/44874addc7ea136f83c67d5869047ece02645fdb
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42067
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2018-81.yaml
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201130165946/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396
- WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396