CVE-2018-10875

Aliases:GHSA-fc4h-467w-46rhPYSEC-2018-43
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 25
Modified
Published: 13 Jul 2018, 22:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 07:46

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.0 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability +0.02%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

13 Jul 2018, 22:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 07:46
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 21%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-426•Untrusted Search Path

    The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    16.04 | 18.04 | 19.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0 | 8.0

  • PyPI•ansible

    < 2.4.6.0 | ≥ 2.5.0a1, < 2.5.6 | ≥ 2.6.0a1, < 2.6.1 | ≥ 2.6, < 2.6.1

  • redhat•ansible_engine

    2.0 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6

  • redhat•ceph_storage

    2.0 | 3.0

  • redhat•gluster_storage

    3.0.0

  • redhat•openshift

    3.0

  • redhat•openstack

    10 | 12 | 13

  • redhat•virtualization

    4.0

  • redhat•virtualization_host

    4.0

  • suse•package_hub

    na

  • [unknown]•ansible

    n/a

References (25)