Code execution via injected module arguments
Published Feb 18, 2020 · Updated Aug 6, 2024
Argument injection in Ansible before 1.6.7 allows remote attackers controlling a managed host to execute arbitrary code through crafted facts. Runner module-argument templating treated fact values as argument text, so trailing src, temp, or validate assignments added or replaced parameters, and validate values could carry shell commands. Exploitation requires control of a managed node and knowledge of a playbook that feeds its facts into module inputs; local_action or delegate_to can execute on the controller or another node.
Summary
What happened
Argument injection in Ansible before 1.6.7 allows remote attackers controlling a managed host to execute arbitrary code through crafted facts. Runner module-argument templating treated fact values as argument text, so trailing src, temp, or validate assignments added or replaced parameters, and validate values could carry shell commands. Exploitation requires control of a managed node and knowledge of a playbook that feeds its facts into module inputs; local_action or delegate_to can execute on the controller or another node.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2014-4967
- Published
- Feb 18, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-74, T1059.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 18, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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