CVE-2017-7466

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Published 2022-05-13 · Modified 2024-04-22
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

Ansible before version 2.3 has an input validation vulnerability in the 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: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7466

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.1.0-2
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.1.0-2
debian debiansidfixed2.2.1.0-2
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.1.0-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.1.0-2

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIansible<2.2.3.02.2.3.0
python PyPIansible<2.3.0.02.3.0.0

References

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