Security advisory

{
  "id": "dab29e91d9a81911c980a73bb4b7b3fb13c9809939c72b87d6382ff91740ec69",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8628",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-8628",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-8628",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-8628",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-8628",
        "GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgq",
        "PYSEC-2018-38"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "cdec853e37d2342346f54e51f4ec4bfbd2ee0031"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.2.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2.2.0.0-0.4.rc4",
            "v2.2.0.0-0.3.rc3",
            "v2.2.0.0-0.2.rc2",
            "v2.2.0.0-0.1.rc1",
            "v2.0.0-0.5.beta3",
            "v2.0.0-0.4.beta2",
            "v2.0.0-0.3.beta1",
            "v2.0.0-0.2.alpha2",
            "v2.0.0-0.1.alpha1",
            "v1.6.0",
            "v1.4.0",
            "v1.2",
            "v1.1",
            "v1.0",
            "0.7",
            "0.3",
            "0.0.1",
            "0.01"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8628.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:54.652881489Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-8628",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438254,
  "published_at": "2018-07-31T20:29:00.323+00:00"
}