CVE-2019-14904

Description

A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules. When setting the name for the zone on the Solaris host, the zone name is checked by listing the process with the 'ps' bare command on the remote machine. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting the name of the zone and executing arbitrary commands in the remote host. Ansible Engine 2.7.15, 2.8.7, and 2.9.2 as well as previous versions are affected.

How to fix CVE-2019-14904

To remediate CVE-2019-14904, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 2.8.8-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 2.9.3-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 2.9.4+dfsg-1 or later
• —upgrade to 2.7.16 or later
• —upgrade to 2.7.15 or later

Is CVE-2019-14904 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 2.8.8-r0
• from 0, < 2.9.3-r0
• from 0, < 2.9.4+dfsg-1
• from 0, < 2.7.16
• from 0, < 2.7.15, >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.7, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.2

CVSS scores

References (13)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-gwr8-5j83-483c
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14904
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-14904
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14904
• PATCH