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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9587: ansible host to controller command execution vulnerability

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9587: ansible host to controller command execution vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/31/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
12/27/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ansible

References

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