CVE-2016-9587

high
Published 2018-10-10 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9587.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9587

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.0.0-3
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.0.0-3
debian debiansidfixed2.2.0.0-3
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.0.0-3
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.0.0-3
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed2.2.1.0rc5-3

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIansible<2.1.4.02.1.4.0
python PyPIansible>=2.2.0.0,<2.2.1.02.2.1.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.