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PYSEC-2018-38

Quick fix

PYSEC-2018-38 — ansible: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.2.0.0'

Details

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

PyPI/ansible

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.2.0.0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.2.0.0'

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8628[REPORT]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2778[ADVISORY]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94109[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgq[ADVISORY]