CVE-2018-10875
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.07%Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2018-10875DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10875
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.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.6.3-r0
- Alpine/ansible-basefrom 0, < 2.6.3-r0
- Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.6.1+dfsg-1
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.4.6.0
- PyPI/ansible>= 2.5, < 2.5.6, >= 2.4, < 2.4.6.0, >= 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:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (27)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10875
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-10875
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10875
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
- 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10875
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/4cecbe81adbc655d7ab734165d3ac539f8ba5981
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/f32c42c37aaf7b9db93ea3151b2f42a0c4bd8172
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ff980afefdbe4ceb828bdb1bb2eef03cf616bf63
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42388
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42070
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/43583
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2018-43.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201130165946/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396
- WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396