cve-2016-8628
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-31 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity
7.6 (High) - cvssV3_0 - 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
SourceURLTags
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94109Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
Red HatAnsible
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