CVE-2016-8628

2018-07-3120:00:00

CWE-77

redhat

www.cve.org

CVSS3

7.6

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.4

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

59.7%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Ansible",
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.2.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]