CVE-2014-4966
Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.7%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-4966
To remediate CVE-2014-4966, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/ansible—upgrade to 1.6.8+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.6.7 or later
- —upgrade to 62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527 or later
Is CVE-2014-4966 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.6.8+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 1.6.7
- from 0, < 62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527 | from 0, < 1.6.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |