CVE-2016-8647

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.014 · 73 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.44% (73rd) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

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

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.2–4.9

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.02.2lowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.02.2lowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 0.7 · impact 1.4

v3.04.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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-20USCWE-20US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 4.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:4.1
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Red Hat Ansible≤ 2.2.1.0enisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible engine< 2.2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat virtualization= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI ansible< 2.2.1.0osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0960Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (Ansible): Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehung von SicherheitsrichtlinienDeutsch2017-07-06csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann die Schwachstelle in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen.
GHSA-x4cm-m36h-c6qjImproper Input Validation in ansible2018-10-10ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2018-582018-07-26vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-26modified 2026-06-17

references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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