Vulnerability Database

289,599

Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-8628

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.

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9.1
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 9
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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