rh#1335551

It was reported that user module in ansible before 1.6.6 is vulnerable to command execution. Ansible can get the result of remote command in variable, which may come from untrusted source of input. The content of variable isn't properly filtered and when attempting to use the variable, it will trigger a function that passes it through jinja 2 template engine that can result into arbitrary command execution. Under certain circumstances, unprivileged user on system that is being managed via ansible can execute code on the managing host under UID of running ansible process.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5

Acknowledgments:

Name: Michael Scherer (Red Hat)

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335551
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3498
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3498