Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20168628000
Revision Date:2018-07-31Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-8628 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-8628
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'ansible' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.1').
  • BACK