CVE-2018-10875

moderate-risk
Published 2018-07-13

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.06% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (19)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Suse Canonical

References (28)

Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3788
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2150
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2151
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2152
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2166
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2321
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2585
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0054
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10875
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396
Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3788
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2150
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2151
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2152
and 8 more references
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 19/34 · Moderate