8.1

CVE-2026-87874: Community.general: community.general: memcached cache plugin deserializes untrusted pickle data from memcached, enabling cache-poisoning remote code execution on the ansible controller

Awaiting analysis
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-87874DEBIAN-CVE-2026-87874
Published 09-09-2026Last modified 10-09-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-87874 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in ansible. EPSS estimates a 0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 8.1 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.72%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 09-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in the memcached cache plugin of the community.general Ansible collection. Although its documentation states that records are stored in JSON format, the plugin performs no explicit serialization and relies on python-memcached, which pickles values on write and unpickles them on read. Because memcached is unauthenticated and cache keys are predictable, an attacker able to reach a network-exposed or shared memcached instance can write a crafted pickle payload that is deserialized and executed on the Ansible controller when the poisoned fact cache is next read, leading to remote code execution.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.72%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

54%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.72% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu2 products
  • ansibleAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • ansible-coreAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • ansibleAll versions (No fix recorded)

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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