What is CVE-2016-8628?

CVE-2016-8628 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.6/10. Published 2018-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2016-8628?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.6 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-8628 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Red Hat Ansible

CVE-2016-8628

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…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.005 (64.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible — versions 2.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

RHSA-2016:2778 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
94109 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8628?: CVE-2016-8628 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.6/10. Published 2018-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2016-8628?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-8628 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.