CVE-2018-10875: Untrusted Search Path

July 13, 2018 (updated July 25, 2019)

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.

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10875
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10875

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