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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-426"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-22T22:09:48Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"nvd_published_at": "2018-07-13T22:29:00Z"
}