CVE-2014-4966: Red Hat Ansible

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent remote data with "{{" substrings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) crafted lookup('pipe') calls or (2) crafted Jinja2 data.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible: before 1.6.7 (fixed in 1.6.7)

Published 2020-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.