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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-4966: Ansible: Privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-4966: Ansible: Privilege escalation

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
02/28/2020

Description

Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent remote data with "{{" substrings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted lookup('pipe') calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-admin-ansible

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