| Name | CVE-2024-11079 |
| Description | A flaw was found in Ansible-Core. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass unsafe content protections using the hostvars object to reference and execute templated content. This issue can lead to arbitrary code execution if remote data or module outputs are improperly templated within playbooks. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1088106 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 11.1.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| ansible-core (PTS) | bookworm | 2.14.16-0+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2.17.5-5 | vulnerable |
| sid | 2.18.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - ansible-core <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
ansible-core was split off from src:ansible with 4.6.0-1 in experimental/5.4.0-1 in sid
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325171
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-99w6-3xph-cx78
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/2936b80dbbc7efb889934aeec80f6142c10266ce (v2.18.1rc1)
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/98774d15d7748ebaaaf2e83942cc7e8d39f7280e (v2.17.7rc1)
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/70e83e72b43e05e57eb42a6d52d01a4d9768f510 (v2.16.14rc1)