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Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.1.3)

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Privileges Required High
    Scope Changed
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.26% (66th percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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Red Hat
7.6 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-40437
  • published 1 Nov 2016
  • disclosed 1 Nov 2016
  • credit Michael Scherer
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Introduced: 1 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-8628 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-77 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

ansible is a Radically simple IT automation Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary command Injection due to failing to properly sanitize fact variables sent from the Ansible controller. Any user with the ability to create special variables on the controller could exploit this vulnerability, running with the user Ansible runs as.