CVE-2026-87874

HighCVSS 8.1

Published: 09/09/2026(UTC)Updated: 09/09/2026(UTC)Translated: 09/09/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.43%

36th percentile - higher than 36% of all known CVEs

Summary

The memcached cache plugin in the community.general Ansible collection does not perform explicit serialization, relying on python-memcached which pickles values on write and unpickles on read. Because memcached is unauthenticated and cache keys are predictable, an attacker can write a crafted pickle payload that is deserialized and executed on the Ansible controller when the poisoned fact cache is read, leading to remote code execution.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes remote code execution on the Ansible controller, potentially leading to full compromise of the managed infrastructure.

Recommendation

Secure the memcached instance (e.g., with authentication and network restrictions) and update the community.general collection to a patched version.

Other vulnerabilities in community.general Ansible collection

CVE-2026-87872Medium
A flaw was found in the OCAPI modules (ocapi_command, ocapi_info) of the community.general Ansible collection. The shared OCAPI request helper disables TLS certificate validation on every request and the modules expose no parameter to re-enable it, while sending HTTP Basic-Auth credentials to an https endpoint. An attacker positioned on the network path between the Ansible controller and the OCAPI-managed storage/enclosure device can present any certificate, intercept the session, capture the credentials, and tamper with responses.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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