CVE-2014-4966

Publication date 18 February 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent remote data with "{{" substrings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted lookup('pipe') calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that Ansible mishandled certain input. A remote attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored
	15.04 vivid	Ignored
	14.10 utopic	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ansible	Upstream: 84759fa

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H