CVE-2014-4966: Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution

May 17, 2022 (updated September 10, 2024)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqq5-c89p-3wc3
github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-204.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4966

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