ubuntu-cve-2014-4966
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2020-02-18 15:15
Modified
2025-10-14 16:46
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "ansible",
            "binary_version": "1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ansible-fireball",
            "binary_version": "1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ansible-node-fireball",
            "binary_version": "1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "ansible",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible@1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty/esm"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.1+dfsg-1",
        "1.3.4+dfsg-1",
        "1.4.0+dfsg-1",
        "1.4.1+dfsg-1",
        "1.4.3+dfsg-1",
        "1.4.4+dfsg-1",
        "1.5.4+dfsg-1",
        "1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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(\u0027pipe\u0027) calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4966",
  "modified": "2025-10-14T16:46:08Z",
  "published": "2020-02-18T15:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4966"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/84759faa0950146a6bae8452580b4a4cede6d871"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/22"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4966"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2014-4966"
  ]
}



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