CVE-2019-14905

MEDIUM5.6EPSS 0.27%

Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere, Improper Input Validation, and External Control of File Name or Path in Ansible

Published: 4/20/2021Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (5)

Alpine/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.8.8-r0
Alpine/ansible-basefrom 0, < 2.9.3-r0
Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.9.4+dfsg-1
PyPI/ansible>= 2.7.0a1, < 2.7.16
PyPI/ansible>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.16, >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.8, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 4.0	—	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.6	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Description

Affected packages (5)

CVSS scores

References (13)