CVE-2016-8628

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CVSS 3.0

9.1 critical

EPSS

3%p88

Published

Jul 31, 2018 (Jul 31, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: redhat
Products: ansible
Weakness: CWE-77
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.3%)

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