GHSA-m956-frf4-m2wr
Ansible is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2016-9587
- Aliases
- PYSEC-2018-39
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Ansible before versions 2.1.4.0, 2.2.1.0 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.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · ansible | introduced 0, fixed 2.1.4.0 |
| PyPI · ansible | introduced 2.2.0.0, fixed 2.2.1.0 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9587 ADVISORY
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0448 WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0515 WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1685 WEB
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9587 WEB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m956-frf4-m2wr ADVISORY
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible PACKAGE
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2018-39.yaml WEB
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-77 WEB
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170115210655/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95352 WEB
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41013 WEB
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0195.html WEB
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0260.html WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |