Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2016-8628: ansible: Command injection by compromised server via fact variables
9
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
06/18/2018
07/25/2018
06/18/2018
05/10/2023
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.
Solution(s)
- linuxrpm-upgrade-ansible
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