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SUSE: CVE-2016-8628: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-8628: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/10/2017
Modified
11/14/2020

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)

  • suse-upgrade-ansible

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