CVE-2019-14905

Publication date 31 March 2020

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS command injections. This could result in a loss of confidentiality of the system among other issues.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

john-breton

Vulnerable module was introduced in 2.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ansible	Upstream: 88416b6 Upstream: 0d08d78 Upstream: 1257448

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L