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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-w578-j992-554x)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423447

Description

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

 - Ansible before versions 2.3.1.0 and 2.4.0.0 fails to properly mark lookup-plugin results as unsafe. If an
 attacker could control the results of lookup() calls, they could inject Unicode strings to be parsed by
 the jinja2 templating system, resulting in code execution. By default, the jinja2 templating language is
 now marked as 'unsafe' and is not evaluated. (CVE-2017-7481)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w578-j992-554x

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423447

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7481

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/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: 9/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7481

BID: 98492

cwe: CWE-20