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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-3xvg-x47j-x75w)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409798

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In ansible it was found that inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running
 ad-hoc command which are under attacker's control, allowing to run arbitrary code as a result.
 (CVE-2018-10874)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3xvg-x47j-x75w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409798

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Threat Score: 5.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10874