| Name | CVE-2021-3583 |
| Description | A 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. |
| 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-3695-1 |
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 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 7.3.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 7.7.0+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| sid | 9.4.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| ansible-core (PTS) | bookworm | 2.14.3-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.16.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - ansible <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[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