CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-10875
High (7.8). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ansible 2.4.6.0, 2.5.6, 2.6.1.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- redhat:ansible_engine
- redhat:ceph_storage
- redhat:gluster_storage
- redhat:openshift
- redhat:openstack
- redhat:virtualization
- redhat:virtualization_host
- suse:package_hub
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-fc4h-467w-46rh | PyPI | ansible | <2.4.6.0 | 2.4.6.0 |
| GHSA-fc4h-467w-46rh | PyPI | ansible | >=2.5.0a1 <2.5.6 | 2.5.6 |
| GHSA-fc4h-467w-46rh | PyPI | ansible | >=2.6.0a1 <2.6.1 | 2.6.1 |
| PYSEC-2018-43 | PyPI | ansible | >=2.5 <2.5.6 >=2.4 <2.4.6.0 >=2.6 <2.6.1 | 2.5.6, 2.4.6.0, 2.6.1 |