CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-2686

Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

Published: Jan 09, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

Weakness

The code contains a control flow path that does not reflect the algorithm that the path is intended to implement, leading to incorrect behavior any time this path is navigated.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ansible Redhat * 1.5.4 (excluding)
Ansible Ubuntu trusty *
Ansible Ubuntu upstream *
Ansible Ubuntu xenial *

References