A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade ansible-docUpgrade ansible | Sep 28, 2023 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade ansible | Aug 9, 2021 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-admin/ansible. | Jun 15, 2020 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade ansible-docUpgrade ansibleUpgrade ansible-test | Mar 19, 2022 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Ubuntu | — | No solution exists | Jun 26, 2025 | Mar 24, 2020 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 24, 2020 |
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