| Name | CVE-2016-9587 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 850846 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.6.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ansible | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| ansible | source | (unstable) | 2.2.0.0-3 | | | 850846 |
Notes
[jessie] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, way ssh commands was reworked in 2.x branch)
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ec84ff6de6eca9224bf3f22b752bb8da806611ed (v2.2.1.0-0.3.rc3)
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/eb8c26c105e8457b86324b64a13fac37d8862d47 (v2.2.1.0-0.4.rc4)
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/cc4634a5e73c06c6b4581f11171289ca9228391e (v2.2.1.0-0.4.rc4)
Fix in 2.2.0.0-2 only partially addressed the issues, and needed a follow-up, 2.2.0.0-3