🛡️ CVE-2014-2686 — ansible

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-670 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Ansible unsafe evaluation of some strings

Ansible prior to 1.5.4 mishandles the evaluation of some strings.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-2686 is classified as CWE-670: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation. The control flow does not do what the logic intends, so a check never has the effect it appears to have.

Affected software

CVE-2014-2686 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ansible (fixed in 1.5.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 19 February 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
groups.google.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-670
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-02-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ansible — 1.5.4

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