CVE-2024-11079
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible-Core. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass unsafe content protections using the hostvars object to reference and execute templated content. This issue can lead to arbitrary code execution if remote data or module outputs are improperly templated within playbooks.
CVSS Metrics
- v4.0•LOW•Score: 2.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:P
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.50%• Percentile: 42%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-20•Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
Affected Systems
- chainguard•ansible-operator
< 1.37.0-r0
- chainguard•ansible-operator-compat
< 1.37.0-r0
- chainguard•py3-ansible-core
< 2.18.1-r0
- chainguard•py3.12-ansible-core
< 2.18.1-r0
- chainguard•py3.13-ansible-core
< 2.18.1-r0
- wolfi•py3-ansible-core
< 2.18.1-r0
- wolfi•py3.12-ansible-core
< 2.18.1-r0
- wolfi•py3.13-ansible-core
< 2.18.1-r0
- debian•ansible
< 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u4 | < 5.4.0-1 | < 5.4.0-1 | < 5.4.0-1
- debian•ansible-core
< 2.14.18-0+deb12u1 | < 2.18.0-2 | < 2.18.0-2
- PyPI•ansible-core
≥ 2.18.0b1, < 2.18.1rc1 | ≥ 2.17.0b1, < 2.17.7rc1 | < 2.16.14rc1
References (19)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10770
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:11145
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11079
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325171
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11079
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84299
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/84339
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/2936b80dbbc7efb889934aeec80f6142c10266ce
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/70e83e72b43e05e57eb42a6d52d01a4d9768f510
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/98774d15d7748ebaaaf2e83942cc7e8d39f7280e
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.18.1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.18.rst#security-fixes
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/03/msg00006.html
- https://pypi.org/project/ansible-core
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-99w6-3xph-cx78
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-11079
- https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
- https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/11xxx/CVE-2024-11079.json