CVE-2016-9587
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-04-24 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0195.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0260.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95352Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0448Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0515Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1685Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9587Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-77Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41013/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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