Description
A flaw was found in the memcached cache plugin of the community.general Ansible collection. Although its documentation states that records are stored in JSON format, the plugin performs no explicit serialization and relies on python-memcached, which pickles values on write and unpickles them on read. Because memcached is unauthenticated and cache keys are predictable, an attacker able to reach a network-exposed or shared memcached instance can write a crafted pickle payload that is deserialized and executed on the Ansible controller when the poisoned fact cache is next read, leading to remote code execution.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 5
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 9
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
Default version status: affected