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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-3m8p-xpm6-8ww3)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432281

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2017-7466)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3m8p-xpm6-8ww3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432281

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7466

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7466

BID: 97595

cwe: CWE-20