5.5Medium

CVE-2024-11079Ansible-core: unsafe tagging bypass via hostvars object in ansible-core

ansible-core; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments; Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8; Red Hat Red Hat Ansible A… Published: (2 years ago)

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible-Core. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass unsafe content protections using the hostvars object to reference and execute templated content. This issue can lead to arbitrary code execution if remote data or module outputs are improperly templated within playbooks.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-20

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

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