CVE-2016-8614

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Jul 31, 2018
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 12, 2016

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The apt_key module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-358

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AnsibleRed Hat	2.2.0Affected

References

94108vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8614
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5353
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5357
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/5237

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