CVE-2016-8614

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.025 · 84 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.46% (84th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The apt_key module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.06.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.06.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.4

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-320USprimaryCWE-358USCWE-358US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Red Hat Ansible≤ 2.2.0enisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible< 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI ansible< 2.2.0.0osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-cmwx-9m2h-x7v4Ansible apt_key module does not properly verify key fingerprint2018-10-10ghsa · osvUS
A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0.0. The `apt_key` module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key.
PYSEC-2018-372018-07-31vendor · osvUS
A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The apt_key module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-31modified 2026-06-17

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references (16)

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