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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-m956-frf4-m2wr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422304

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://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m956-frf4-m2wr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422304

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.99

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 8.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9587

BID: 95352

cwe: CWE-20