CVE-2018-10875

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-10875  

It was found that ansible.cfg is being read from the current working directory, which can be made to point to plugin or module paths that are under control of the attacker. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

It was found that ansible.cfg is being read from the current working directory, which can be made to point to plugin or module paths that are under control of the attacker. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Find out more about CVE-2018-10875 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 (ansible) RHSA-2018:2166 2018-07-10
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 for RHEL 7 (ansible) RHSA-2018:2150 2018-07-10
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (ansible) RHSA-2019:0054 2019-01-16
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 (ansible) RHSA-2018:2151 2018-07-10
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (ansible) RHBA-2018:3788 2018-12-05
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7 Server (ansible) RHSA-2018:2152 2018-07-10
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts RHSA-2018:2321 2018-07-31
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) (ansible) RHSA-2018:2585 2018-08-29

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 6 ansible Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 ansible Affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 ansible Affected
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 ansible Affected
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ansible Affected
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ansible Affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat).