Red Hat Ansible hostvars Object information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat Ansible. This affects an unknown part of the component hostvars Object Handler. This manipulation causes information disclosure. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-11079. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Red Hat Ansible (affected version unknown). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component hostvars Object Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-11079 since 11/11/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/05/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213128 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:11145)), 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 databases at Tenable (213128) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-3228). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.0

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 213128
Nessus Name: RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:11145)

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-11079 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-11079
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-283879
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/11/2024 15:17
Updated: 07/05/2025 12:07
Changes: 11/11/2024 15:17 (50), 11/12/2024 01:43 (12), 11/12/2024 11:21 (1), 12/18/2024 12:00 (2), 07/05/2025 12:07 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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