CVE-2014-2686 Ansible unsafe evaluation of some strings

What is CVE-2014-2686?

CVE-2014-2686 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

Weakness: CWE-670

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2686?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Ansible.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2686?

Upgrade ansible to 1.5.4 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-2686 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2686 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2014-4657 Ansible Remote Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4966 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4967 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7550 Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-3498 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2686, GHSA-49m5-2838-q2rv, PYSEC-2020-198.