CVE-2019-3828

Publication date 27 March 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Ansible fetch module before versions 2.5.15, 2.6.14, 2.7.8 has a path traversal vulnerability which allows copying and overwriting files outside of the specified destination in the local ansible controller host, by not restricting an absolute path.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.2 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.2 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4072-1
Ansible vulnerabilities
24 July 2019