OS Command Injection in Ansible - CVE-2019-14904

Vulnerability identifier: #VU23449

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14904

CWE-ID: CWE-78

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing zone names within the solaris_zone module. A remote uuser can provide a specially crafted zone name as a parameter to the os.system() call and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.

Ansible
ansible (Debian package)
ansible (Alpine package)
ansible
ansible-help
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
openEuler

Install updates from vendor's website.

Ansible - update to 2.9.2
ansible (Debian package) - update to 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1
ansible (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.7.16-r0, 2.8.8-r0
ansible - addressed in versions 2.5.5-2, 2.5.5-6
ansible-help - addressed in versions 2.5.5-2, 2.5.5-6
ansible - addressed in versions 2.9.3-1.el7, 2.9.3-1.el8, 2.9.3-1.fc30, 2.9.3-1.fc31

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1776944
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/8c74df5e67fcae15d5d050ea1ffb4d6d1aa9070c/lib/ansible/modules/system/solaris_zone.py#L313
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0218
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0217
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0216
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0215

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Ansible
• OpenSUSE Linux update for ansible
• OpenSUSE Linux update for ansible
• OS Command Injection in ansible (Alpine package)
• Debian update for ansible
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP2 update for ansible
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP1 update for ansible
• Fedora 30 update for ansible
• Fedora 31 update for ansible
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for ansible
• Fedora EPEL 8 update for ansible