CVE-2016-9587

Upstream information

CVE-2016-9587 at MITRE

Description

Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	9.3	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:P
Access Vector	Network	Network
Access Complexity	Medium	Medium
Authentication	None	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Complete	Partial
Integrity Impact	Complete	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.1
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1019021 [RESOLVED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SU-2017:3029-1, published Fri Nov 17 10:07:29 MST 2017
openSUSE-SU-2017:2976-1, published Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:10:37 +0100 (CET)
openSUSE-SU-2017:2978-1, published Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:11:43 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7	`ansible >= 2.2.3.0-5.1` `monasca-installer >= 20170912_10.45-5.1`	Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2017-1793
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12	`ansible >= 2.4.1.0-6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2017-1259
openSUSE Leap 42.2	`ansible >= 2.4.1.0-2.4.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2017-1259
openSUSE Leap 42.3	`ansible >= 2.4.1.0-6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2017-1259

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.