CVE-2016-8628

highpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
3.21% (88th) EPSS
CVSS 9 · high
Is it mine?
3 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

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

9.1
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.6–9.1

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10
v3.09.1criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.3 · impact 6
v3.07.6highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.07.6highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1 · impact 6
v3.09.1criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV
v3.08.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-77USprimaryCWE-77US
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affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • GHSA-jg4f-jqm5-4mgqAnsible fails to properly sanitize fact variables sent from the Ansible controller2018-10-10ghsa · osvUS

    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.

  • PYSEC-2018-382018-07-31vendor · osvUS

    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.

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also known as (6)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvdenisa_euvdosvnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2018-07-31modified 2026-06-17
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references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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