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BREW-ANSIBLE-CVE-2014-2686 (GHSA-49M5-2838-Q2RV)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 16:35 – Updated: 2026-09-10 18:51 – Source website

Summary

Ansible unsafe evaluation of some strings

Details

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

8.7 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

URL

Type

	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2686	ADVISORY
	https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/998793f…	WEB
	https://github.com/ansible/ansible	PACKAGE
	https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/ma…	WEB
	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansibl…	WEB

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  ]
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CVE-2014-2686 (GCVE-0-2014-2686)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-09 12:25 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21

Summary

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21searchin/ansi…	x_refsource_MISC

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GHSA-49M5-2838-Q2RV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 19:57 – Updated: 2024-09-06 19:52

Summary

Ansible unsafe evaluation of some strings

Details

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "ansible"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.5.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2014-2686"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-670"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-08-07T20:34:37Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-01-09T13:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.",
  "id": "GHSA-49m5-2838-q2rv",
  "modified": "2024-09-06T19:52:27Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T19:57:14Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2686"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/998793fd0ab55705d57527a38cee5e83f535974c"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-198.yaml"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    }
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
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  ],
  "summary": "Ansible unsafe evaluation of some strings"
}

PYSEC-2020-198

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2020-01-09 13:15 - Updated: 2021-07-02 02:41

Details

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

Impacted products

Name	purl
ansible	pkg:pypi/ansible

Aliases

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "ansible",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/ansible"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            },
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              "fixed": "1.5.4"
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      "versions": [
        "1.0",
        "1.1",
        "1.2",
        "1.2.1",
        "1.2.2",
        "1.2.3",
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        "1.3.1",
        "1.3.2",
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    "GHSA-49m5-2838-q2rv"
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  "modified": "2021-07-02T02:41:33.018970Z",
  "published": "2020-01-09T13:15:00Z",
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    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-49m5-2838-q2rv"
    }
  ]
}

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BREW-ANSIBLE-CVE-2014-2686 (GHSA-49M5-2838-Q2RV)

CVE-2014-2686 (GCVE-0-2014-2686)

GHSA-49M5-2838-Q2RV

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