CVE-2018-10875
Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.07%
Description
A flaw was found in ansible. ansible.cfg is read from the current working directory which can be altered to make it point to a plugin or a module path under the control of an attacker, thus allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code.
How to fix CVE-2018-10875
To remediate CVE-2018-10875, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ansible—upgrade to 2.6.3-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.3-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.1+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.4.6.0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.5.6 or later
Is CVE-2018-10875 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 2.6.3-r0
- from 0, < 2.6.3-r0
- from 0, < 2.6.1+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 2.4.6.0
- >= 2.5, < 2.5.6, >= 2.4, < 2.4.6.0, >= 2.6, < 2.6.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |