Vulnerability in ansible (CVE-2014-3498)
Summary
Vulnerability in ansible (CVE-2014-3498). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5, 1.6.6 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The user module in ansible before 1.6.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2014-3498 has been found in ansible.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.8/10.
What to do: upgrade ansible to 8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5, 1.6.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "ansible CVE-2014-3498" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2014-3498 (ansible) — CWE-20 / CVSS v3 8.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5, 1.6.6 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-20) exists in ansible.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of ansible.
Severity: High (CVSS 8.8/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5, 1.6.6.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'ansible' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'ansible' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
ansibleを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade ansible to 8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5, 1.6.6ステージング環境で 8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5, 1.6.6 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3498 ansible Fixed in: 1.7.0+dfsg-1
References
- advisory github.com
- patch github.com
- report bugzilla.redhat.com