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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWpnNGYtanFtNS00bWdx

Ansible fails to properly sanitize fact variables sent from the Ansible controller

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgq
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: over 5 years ago
Updated: 7 months ago


CVSS Score: 9.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgq, CVE-2016-8628
References: Repository: https://github.com/ansible/ansible

Affected Packages

pypi:ansible
Dependent packages: 101
Dependent repositories: 14,706
Downloads: 5,174,818 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 2.2.0
Fixed in: 2.2.0
All affected versions: 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9, 1.6.10, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6, 2.0.0
All unaffected versions: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.5.6, 2.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.5.9, 2.5.10, 2.5.11, 2.5.12, 2.5.13, 2.5.14, 2.5.15, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.14, 2.6.15, 2.6.16, 2.6.17, 2.6.18, 2.6.19, 2.6.20, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.7, 2.7.8, 2.7.9, 2.7.10, 2.7.11, 2.7.12, 2.7.13, 2.7.14, 2.7.15, 2.7.16, 2.7.17, 2.7.18, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.6, 2.8.7, 2.8.8, 2.8.9, 2.8.10, 2.8.11, 2.8.12, 2.8.13, 2.8.14, 2.8.15, 2.8.16, 2.8.17, 2.8.18, 2.8.19, 2.8.20, 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.9.3, 2.9.4, 2.9.5, 2.9.6, 2.9.7, 2.9.8, 2.9.9, 2.9.10, 2.9.11, 2.9.12, 2.9.13, 2.9.14, 2.9.15, 2.9.16, 2.9.17, 2.9.18, 2.9.19, 2.9.20, 2.9.21, 2.9.22, 2.9.23, 2.9.24, 2.9.25, 2.9.26, 2.9.27, 2.10.0, 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.3, 2.10.4, 2.10.5, 2.10.6, 2.10.7, 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.4.0, 4.5.0, 4.6.0, 4.7.0, 4.8.0, 4.9.0, 4.10.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.5.0, 5.6.0, 5.7.0, 5.7.1, 5.8.0, 5.9.0, 5.10.0, 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 6.4.0, 6.5.0, 6.6.0, 6.7.0, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.2.0, 7.3.0, 7.4.0, 7.5.0, 7.6.0, 7.7.0, 8.0.0, 8.1.0, 8.2.0, 8.3.0, 8.4.0, 8.5.0, 8.6.0, 8.6.1, 8.7.0, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.0