Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.1.3)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.26% (66th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-40437
- published 1 Nov 2016
- disclosed 1 Nov 2016
- credit Michael Scherer
Overview
ansible
is a Radically simple IT automation
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary command Injection due to failing to properly sanitize fact variables sent from the Ansible controller. Any user with the ability to create special variables on the controller could exploit this vulnerability, running with the user Ansible runs as.