CVE-2014-4966

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent remote data with "{{" substrings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted lookup('pipe') calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-74

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-004.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-004.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/62a1295a3e08cb6c3e9f1b2a1e6e5dcaeab32527Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 18, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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