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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-8628

critical

CVE-2016-8628

ansible: Command injection by compromised server via fact variables

Published Modified CWE 77
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.4CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Red Hat7.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
pip::GitHub Security Advisory pipansible2.2.0.0
debian 11ansible2.2.0.0-1
debian 12ansible2.2.0.0-1
debian 13ansible2.2.0.0-1
debian 14ansible2.2.0.0-1
echoansible2.2.0.0-1
ubuntu 16.04ansible2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMansible2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.1

References

All 12 references

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