SB2019120801 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ansible 

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SB2019120801 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ansible

Published: December 8, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019120801
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14905)

The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect validation of filenames within the nxos_file_copy module when copying files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices using the remote_file parameter. A local user or malicious code can abuse this functionality to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands on the system with elevated privileges.



2) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14904)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing zone names within the solaris_zone module. A remote uuser can provide a specially crafted zone name as a parameter to the os.system() call and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References