| Name | CVE-2018-10875 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1923-1, DSA-4396-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.5.0+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1596533
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42070
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/4cecbe81adbc655d7ab734165d3ac539f8ba5981