Bug 1388113 (CVE-2016-8628) - CVE-2016-8628 ansible: Command injection by compromised server via fact variables
Summary: CVE-2016-8628 ansible: Command injection by compromised server via fact varia...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-8628
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1390646 1390647 1390648 1390649 1390681 1396333
Blocks: 1388114
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Reported: 2016-10-24 13:37 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:07 UTC (History)
46 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Ansible 2.2.0
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-12-15 05:30:42 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2778 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: atomic-openshift-utils security and bug fix update 2016-11-16 00:08:29 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-24 13:37:25 UTC 
It was found that it's possible to inject code and gain remote code execution via setting ansible_ssh_executable variable by attacker that takes over of controlled server.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-10-24 13:37:55 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Michael Scherer (Red Hat)
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-01 15:23:05 UTC 
Created ansible1.9 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390647]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1390649]
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-01 15:23:26 UTC 
Created ansible tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390646]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1390648]
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-01 15:28:46 UTC 
This issue is addressed in Ansible 2.2.0 available at:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases/tag/v2.2.0.0-1
Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-01 15:34:58 UTC 
Downgrading this issue from High to Medium as it requires a compromised server in order to exploit a client.
Comment 8 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-14 18:24:00 UTC 
Updated affects, 1.9 is not affected.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-15 19:09:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2
  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3

Via RHSA-2016:2778 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778
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