CVE-2016-8628

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Published 2018-10-10 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.2.0.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.2.0.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.2.0.0-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.2.0.0-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.2.0.0-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	ansible	`<2.2.0.0`	`2.2.0.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.