GHSA-2pfh-q76x-gwvm

Improper Input Validation and Command Injection in Ansible

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-3583

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	ansible	< 2.9.23rc1	2.9.23rc1
PyPI	ansible	>= 2.10.0a1, < 2.10.11rc1	2.10.11rc1
PyPI	ansible	>= 2.11.0a1, < 2.11.2rc1	2.11.2rc1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection. This issue can occur through facts used in the template if the user is trying to put templates in multi-line YAML strings and the facts being handled do not routinely include special template characters. This flaw allows attackers to perform command injection, which discloses sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3583 advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74960 web
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/03aff644cc1c00e1f7551195c68fbd0d13a39e6e web
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/8aa850e3573e48c9a2f12aef84e8a3a6f5ba4847 web
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/8b17e5b9229ffaecfe10a4881bc3f87dd2c184e1 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1968412 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2pfh-q76x-gwvm advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2021-358.yaml web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html web