CVE-2016-9587

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

24/04/2018

Last modified:

07/11/2023

Description

Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible&#39;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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible::::::::		2.1.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:ansible:ansible::::::::		2.2.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:11:::::::*

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CVE-2016-9587

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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