CVE-2017-7466

highpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.031 · 88 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.14% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 8.5 · high

Is it mine?

14 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

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

8.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 10

v3.08highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.1 · impact 5.9

v3.08highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.08highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2.1 · impact 5.9

v3.08highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.07.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-20US

affected products (14)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.2
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.3
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.4
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.5
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
[UNKNOWN] Ansible≤ ansible 2.3enisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible< 2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openstack= 10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openstack= 11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI ansible< 2.2.3.0osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible
PyPI ansible< 2.3.0.0osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-1808Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Ausführen von beliebigem Programmcode mit den Rechten des DienstesDeutsch2017-05-17csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter oder anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit den Rechten des Dienstes auszuführen.
GHSA-3m8p-xpm6-8ww3Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2018-402018-06-22vendor · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-06-22modified 2026-06-17

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references (24)

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