CVE-2019-10156
A flaw was discovered in the way Ansible templating was implemented in versions before 2.6.18, 2.7.12 and 2.8.2, causing the possibility…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was discovered in the way Ansible templating was implemented in versions before 2.6.18, 2.7.12 and 2.8.2, causing the possibility of information disclosure through unexpected variable substitution. By taking advantage of unintended variable substitution the content of any variable may be disclosed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-grgm-pph5-j5h7 (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10156 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/57188 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190916 [SECURITY] [DLA 1923-1] ansible security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3744 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3789 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210127 [SECURITY] [DLA 2535-1] ansible security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4950 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0006 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-grgm-pph5-j5h7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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