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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-x4cm-m36h-c6qj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423346

Description

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

 - An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module before 2.2.1.0, which may fail
 to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active
 when it should have been changed. (CVE-2016-8647)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x4cm-m36h-c6qj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423346

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8647

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8647

cwe: CWE-20