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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-10875: ansible Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-10875: ansible Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/13/2018
Created
12/18/2019
Added
12/12/2019
Modified
06/01/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ansible

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