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CVE-2018-10875

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10875 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Ansible, specifically impacting Canonical, Debian, Red Hat, and SUSE distributions. It allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by manipulating the ansible.cfg file in the current working directory to point to a malicious plugin or module path. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph_storage:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0059 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (18)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.4.6.0
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.5.6
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.6.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.4.6.0-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.5.6-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.6.1-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.6.1-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: ansible-0:2.4.6.0-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike)Fixed in: ansible-0:2.4.6.0-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike)Fixed in: ansible-role-redhat-subscription-0:1.0.1-4.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)Fixed in: ansible-0:2.4.6.0-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: imgbased-0:1.0.22-1.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-5.0.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20180724.0
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: ansible

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-fc4h-467w-46rhhigh

Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2018-10875Moderate

ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution

Jun 29, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHBA-2018:3788
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2150
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2151
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2152
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2166
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2321
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2585
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:0054
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4072-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4396
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1041396
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry