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CVE-2019-14905

MEDIUM
5.6
CVSS Score
Published: March 31, 2020 at 04:20 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:19 AM UTC
9 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraLeapBackports Sle

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Severity
MEDIUM5.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

Description

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS command injections. This could result in a loss of confidentiality of the system among other issues.

Affected

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

Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
30
Backports Sle· openSUSE
95%
15.0 sp1
Leap· openSUSEdrupal
95%
15.1
Ansible Engine· Red Hat
95%
2.7.0 ≤ v < 2.7.162.8.0 ≤ v < 2.8.82.9.0 ≤ v < 2.9.3
Affected range stops below 2.7.16, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 2.8.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 2.9.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ansible Tower· Red Hatrpm
95%
3.0.0
Ceph Storage· Red Hatrpm
95%
3.0
Cloudforms Management Engine· Red Hat
95%
5.0
OpenStack· Red Hatdrupal
95%
13
Ansible· Red Hat
60%
2.7 ≤ v ≤ 2.7.x2.7 ≤ v < 2.7.162.8 ≤ v < 2.8.82.9 ≤ v < 2.9.3
Affected range stops below 2.7.16, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 2.8.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 2.9.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (6)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00021.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00026.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0216
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0218
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14905
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5BNCYPQ4BY5QHBCJOAOPANB5FHATW2BR/

CVSS

5.6MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20CWE-73CWE-668

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