Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting golang-github-prometheus-promu package, versions <0.14.0-150000.3.18.2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-GOLANGGITHUBPROMETHEUSPROMU-6810270
  • published7 May 2024
  • disclosed6 May 2024

Introduced: 6 May 2024

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 golang-github-prometheus-promu to version 0.14.0-150000.3.18.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-github-prometheus-promu package and not the golang-github-prometheus-promu package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 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.