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Alpine: multiple ansible packages: security update to 2.2.1.0-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403486

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2016-9587)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9587

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403486

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.99

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9587

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9587

BID: 95352