CVE-2016-8628

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-77

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Ansible	2.2.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94109Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94109Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 31, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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