CVE-2026-87874

A flaw was found in the memcached cache plugin of the community.general Ansible collection.

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…

9. Sep 2026

Ausgewertete Quellen

• Red Hat
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-87874
• Red Hat
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2530995
• NVD
  CVE-2026-87874