CVE-2024-11079 (GCVE-0-2024-11079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-11 23:32 – Updated: 2025-11-20 18:21
VLAI?
Summary
A flaw was found in Ansible-Core. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass unsafe content protections using the hostvars object to reference and execute templated content. This issue can lead to arbitrary code execution if remote data or module outputs are improperly templated within playbooks.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10770 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:11145 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11079 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325171 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.18.0 (semver)
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Unaffected: 3.0.1-107 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el9
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    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Unaffected: 3.0.1-108 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el9
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    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Unaffected: 2.9.27-34 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el9
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    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Unaffected: 2.17.7-1 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el9
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    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Unaffected: 2.16.14-2 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_core:2::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 1:2.16.14-1.el8ap , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 Unaffected: 1:2.16.14-1.el9ap , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux_ai:1
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux_ai:1
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