CVE-2016-8628
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.6 · Command injection
7.6CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.