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High severity7.6NVD Advisory· Published Jul 31, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-8628

CVE-2016-8628

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
ansiblePyPI
< 2.2.0.02.2.0.0

Affected products

163

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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