Red Hat Ansible ansible.cfg untrusted search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Red Hat Ansible. This affects an unknown part of the file ansible.cfg. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2018-10875. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat Ansible (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code of the file ansible.cfg. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in ansible. ansible.cfg is read from the current working directory which can be altered to make it point to a plugin or a module path under the control of an attacker, thus allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The bug was discovered 08/01/2018. The weakness was published 07/13/2018 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-10875 since 05/09/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 111030 (RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2166)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 237089 (Red Hat Update for ansible (RHSA-2019:0054)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (111030) and SecurityFocus (BID 105700†). Similar entries are available at VDB-120136, VDB-120172, VDB-125887 and VDB-132546. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Untrusted search path
CWE: CWE-426
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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 111030
Nessus Name: RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2166)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: RHSA-2018:2166
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-10875 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-10875
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-121475
SecurityFocus: 105700 - Ansible CVE-2018-16837 Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1041396

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/14/2018 17:13
Updated: 04/09/2023 09:25
Changes: 07/14/2018 17:13 (69), 03/05/2020 09:12 (6), 08/22/2022 09:37 (4), 04/09/2023 09:22 (3), 04/09/2023 09:23 (12), 04/09/2023 09:25 (1)
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