cvelistv5 - cve-2016-8628

cve-2016-8628

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-07-31 20:00

Modified

2024-08-06 02:27

Severity ?

7.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Ansible before version 2.2.0 fails to properly sanitize fact variables sent from the Ansible controller. An attacker with the ability to create special variables on the controller could execute arbitrary commands on Ansible clients as the user Ansible runs as.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94109	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778	Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94109	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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Red Hat

Ansible

Version: 2.2.0

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