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High RHSA-2017:1476 2 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: ansible security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Jul 1, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · OpenStack 11 openstack:11::el7 ansible 0:2.2.3.0-1.el7

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.0
    CVE-2017-7466

    Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution

    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…

    [UNKNOWN] ansible ansible ansible Debian Ubuntu PyPI
  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2017-7481

    Ansible fails to properly mark lookup-plugin results as unsafe

    Ansible before versions 2.3.1.0 and 2.4.0.0 fails to properly mark lookup-plugin results as unsafe. If an attacker could control the results of lookup() calls, they could inject Unicode strings to be parsed by the jinja2 templating system, resulting in code e…

    [UNKNOWN] ansible ansible ansible Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439212
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450018
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2017/rhsa-2017_1476.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7466
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7466
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7466
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7481
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7481
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7481