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.

Ansible, Inc. reports :

Arbitrary execution from data from compromised remote hosts or untrusted local data - resolved in Ansible 1.6.7

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201411-09 (Ansible: Privilege escalation)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ansible. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or obtain       sensitive information.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Update to 1.6.10 Update to 1.6.9 with more shell quoting fixes. Update to 1.6.7 Fixes CVE-2014-4966 and CVE-2014-4967 Update to 1.6.8 with fixes for shell quoting from previous release.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 1.6.10 Update to 1.6.9 with more shell quoting fixes. Update to 1.6.7. Fixes CVE-2014-4966 and CVE-2014-4967 Update to 1.6.8 with fixes for shell quoting from previous release.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
84525	FreeBSD : ansible -- code execution from compromised remote host data or untrusted local data (9dae9d62-205f-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical
79417	GLSA-201411-09 : Ansible: Privilege escalation	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
77068	Fedora 19 : ansible-1.6.10-1.fc19 (2014-8904)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
77067	Fedora 20 : ansible-1.6.10-1.fc20 (2014-8901)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-4966

critical

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

low

low