CVE-2016-8647
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
2.2 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module before 2.2.1.0, which may fail to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active when it should have been changed.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1685Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8647Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5388Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Red HatAnsible
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