PT-2021-7624 · Ansible+5 · Ansible+5

Tapas Jena · Published 2021-06-07 · Updated 2026-06-03 · CVE-2021-3583

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.6

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection. This issue can occur through facts used in the template if the user is trying to put templates in multi-line YAML strings and the facts being handled do not routinely include special template characters. This flaw allows attackers to perform command injection, which discloses sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Command Injection

Code Injection

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

CWE-94

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-2040

ALT-PU-2021-2052

ALT-PU-2021-2979

AZL-6305

BDU:2023-00285

CVE-2021-3583

DLA-3695-1

DLA-3695-2

GHSA-2PFH-Q76X-GWVM

MGASA-2021-0420

OESA-2025-1647

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10615-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14244-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15605-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10944-1

PYSEC-2021-358

RHSA-2021:2663

RHSA-2021:2664

SUSE-SU-2021:4152-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3178-1

SUSE-SU-2024:0196-1

USN-5315-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ansible

Astra Linux

Linuxmint

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 223

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1968412 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15605-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3583 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-3583 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5315-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2021:4152-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se47-bulletin-2023-0131SE47MD · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10944-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3583 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14244-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3583 · Vendor Advisory