Vulnerability Reportwillhallonline/ansible:latest

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Executive Summary

Last scanned: Jul 13, 2026

Threat ScoreNEEDS ATTENTION• One exposed surface vulnerability (CVE-2026-33630) in c-ares with medium severity (6.0) could allow remote denial of service via crafted DNS responses.• The container performs outbound DNS queries as part of normal Ansible operations, increasing the relevance of the vulnerability.• No post-exploit vulnerabilities were detected.• The image is from a popular community publisher (6M+ pulls), pinned by digest, and verified as reliable.

25/100NEEDS ATTENTION

ReputationPOPULAR COMMUNITY• High Reputation Community Image (6M+ pulls)• Pinned by digest (Immutable)

RELIABLE

This image is acceptable for production, but remediating the identified vulnerabilities is recommended to reduce the attack surface. It contains a single medium-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-33630) in c-ares that could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending crafted DNS responses. Updating the c-ares package to a patched version fully resolves this issue. The image is from a reliable community publisher and is pinned by digest.

Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Log

1 total

CVE ID	Adjusted Severity	Package	Exploit Probability	Risk Context
CVE-2026-33630	MEDIUM6	c-ares 1.34.6-r0 fixed in 1.34.8-r0	—	Directly ExposedContext importance: MEDIUM

Reachability analysis

Which CVEs are actually reachable — is the vulnerable code even linked and callable.

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Runtime verification

Live-container probes: default user, writable paths, capabilities, exposed ports.

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Supply chain analysis

Base-image lineage, package provenance and signatures — nothing slipped in unnoticed.

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Hardening recommendations

A step-by-step hardened build plan, with parity tests proving nothing breaks.

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