Overview
- 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.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.1
- Impact score
- 6
- Exploitability score
- 2.3
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "595884EA-DBD0-4E8D-A503-C7F6D4E3CCC2",
"versionEndExcluding": "2.2.0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]