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CVE-2018-10875
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…
High7.8EPSS 0.59%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.59% · top 52% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-fc4h-467w-46rh (opens in a new tab)
References (14)
- RHSA-2018:2166 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2152 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2150 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1041396 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10875 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHBA-2018:3788 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0054 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2151 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2321 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2585 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4396 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1125 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-4072-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190916 [SECURITY] [DLA 1923-1] ansible security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fc4h-467w-46rh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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