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Ansible Path Traversal vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 15, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 6, 2024

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

< 2.5.15
>= 2.6.0a1, < 2.6.14
>= 2.7.0a1, < 2.7.8

Patched versions

2.5.15
2.6.14
2.7.8

Description

Ansible fetch module before versions 2.5.15, 2.6.14, 2.7.8 has a path traversal vulnerability which allows copying and overwriting files outside of the specified destination in the local ansible controller host, by not restricting an absolute path.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 27, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 15, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Sep 6, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.055%
(24th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-3828

GHSA ID

GHSA-74vq-h4q8-x6jv

Source code

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