Red Hat Ansible Engine up to 2.7.15/2.8.7/2.9.2 solaris_zone os command injection

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Engine up to 2.7.15/2.8.7/2.9.2. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component solaris_zone. The manipulation leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-14904. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Engine up to 2.7.15/2.8.7/2.9.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component solaris_zone. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules. When setting the name for the zone on the Solaris host, the zone name is checked by listing the process with the 'ps' bare command on the remote machine. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting the name of the zone and executing arbitrary commands in the remote host. Ansible Engine 2.7.15, 2.8.7, and 2.9.2 as well as previous versions are affected.

The weakness was disclosed 08/26/2020 as Bug 1776944 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-14904 since 08/10/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/07/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232217 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Ansible vulnerabilities (USN-7330-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232217). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• Ansible Engine

Version

• 2.7.0
• 2.7.1
• 2.7.2
• 2.7.3
• 2.7.4
• 2.7.5
• 2.7.6
• 2.7.7
• 2.7.8
• 2.7.9
• 2.7.10
• 2.7.11
• 2.7.12
• 2.7.13
• 2.7.14
• 2.7.15
• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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