CVE-2021-3583

NameCVE-2021-3583
DescriptionA flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection. This issue can occur through facts used in the template if the user is trying to put templates in multi-line YAML strings and the facts being handled do not routinely include special template characters. This flaw allows attackers to perform command injection, which discloses sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3695-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ansible (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2fixed
bullseye2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie10.5.0+dfsg-2fixed
ansible-core (PTS)bookworm2.14.16-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2.17.5-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ansiblesourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
ansiblesourcebuster2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2DLA-3695-1
ansiblesourcebullseye2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1
ansiblesource(unstable)5.4.0-1
ansible-basesource(unstable)(unfixed)
ansible-coresource(unstable)2.12.0-1

Notes

[stretch] - ansible <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1968412
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/4c8c40fd3d4a58defdc80e7d22aa8d26b731353e.patch
ansible-core was split off from src:ansible with 4.6.0-1 in experimental/5.4.0-1 in sid

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