CVE-2014-4966
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 18, 2020 at 02:46 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAnsible
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent remote data with "{{" substrings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted lookup('pipe') calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-004.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-74
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