ansible

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Mar 18, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The playbook contains a runtime get_url task that downloads "https://releases.example.com/app-{{ app_version }}.tar.gz" which is then unarchived and later started (executing code on targets), making this a required runtime fetch that executes remote code.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.90). The prompt explicitly describes and recommends privileged operations (use of --become, editing sudoers to add NOPASSWD or Defaults !requiretty) and references modifying system-level config files (e.g. /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, /etc/ansible/hosts), which encourages changing machine state and bypassing sudo protections.

Issues (2)

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Mar 18, 2026, 01:37 PM
Issues
2