Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting ansible package, versions <2.2.0.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-ANSIBLE-5674749
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed31 Jul 2018

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2016-8628  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ansible to version 2.2.0.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible package and not the ansible package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.