creating-ansible-playbooks
Audited by Socket on Mar 11, 2026
1 alert found:
Obfuscated FileThe script is functionally benign as an Ansible test harness but contains moderate security issues that could be abused in adversarial or multi-tenant contexts. Primary concerns: shell injection via unsafely composed docker exec bash -c commands (INVENTORY, EXTRA_VARS, TAGS, SKIP_TAGS), indiscriminate copying of the entire playbook directory (possible secrets/malicious modules), and unpinned/unverified package installation inside the container (supply-chain risk). Mitigations: use docker exec with argument arrays (avoid bash -c with interpolated strings), properly quote and/or validate user inputs, copy only required files (or a sanitized temp dir), pin and verify package installs, and reduce output redirection so failures are visible. With these mitigations the script would be acceptable for CI/local testing; as-is it is a security warning and should not be used with untrusted inputs or in shared CI without hardening.