CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2014-4967

Ansible vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Multiple argument injection vulnerabilities in Ansible before 1.6.7 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging access to an Ansible managed host and providing a crafted fact, as demonstrated by a fact with (1) a trailing " src=" clause, (2) a trailing " temp=" clause, or (3) a trailing " validate=" clause accompanied by a shell command.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Ansible
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-02-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Redhat Ansible is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-4967.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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