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PYSEC-2018-43

Details

A flaw was found in ansible. ansible.cfg is read from the current working directory which can be altered to make it point to a plugin or a module path under the control of an attacker, thus allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible
Introduced in: 2.5 Fixed in: 2.5.6
Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.5.6'

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