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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgq)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421963

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2016-8628)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgq

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 421963

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: 5

Percentile: 95.11

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8628

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Threat Score: 7.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8628

BID: 94109

cwe: CWE-77