CVE-2016-9587

State
Published
Severity
6.6 Medium
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Updated
Aug 6, 2024
Reserved
Nov 23, 2016

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Description

Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.06.6 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Ansibleunspecified
  • ansible 2.1.4Affected
  • ansible 2.2.1Affected

References

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