CVE-2018-10875

HIGH

7.8

CVSS Score

Published: July 13, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:34 AM UTC

12 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxOpenStack

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Severity

HIGH7.8

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.6%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

16.04 18.04 19.04

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

8.0 9.0

Ansible Engine · Red Hat

95%

2.0 2.4 2.5 2.6

Ceph Storage · Red Hatrpm

95%

2.0 3.0

Gluster Storage · Red Hat

95%

3.0.0

Openshift · Red Hat

95%

3.0

OpenStack · Red Hatdrupal

95%

10 12 13

Virtualization · Red Hatrpm

95%

4.0

Virtualization Host · Red Hat

95%

4.0

Package Hub · SUSE

95%

All versions

suse-suse-linux-enterprise-server (environment)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (14)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041396