Red Hat Ansible up to 2.2 input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible up to 2.2. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes input validation. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2017-7466. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Ansible up to 2.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 07/26/2017. The weakness was presented 06/22/2018 with Red Hat as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-7466 since 04/05/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100508 (RHEL 7 : Storage Server (RHSA-2017:1334)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 276607 (Fedora Security Update for ansible (FEDORA-2017-3f40aa3d64)).

Upgrading to version 2.3 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (100508) and SecurityFocus (BID 97595†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Nessus ID: 100508
Nessus Name: RHEL 7 : Storage Server (RHSA-2017:1334)
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OpenVAS ID: 867773
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for ansible FEDORA-2017-c2129c77ca
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Ansible 2.3

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04/05/2017 🔍
04/11/2017 +6 days 🔍
05/25/2017 +44 days 🔍
05/30/2017 +5 days 🔍
07/26/2017 +57 days 🔍
06/22/2018 +330 days 🔍
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06/23/2018 +1 days 🔍
08/24/2024 +2254 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: RHSA-2017:1334
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-7466 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-7466
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-119803
SecurityFocus: 97595 - Ansible CVE-2017-7466 Incomplete Fix Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 06/23/2018 08:36
Updated: 08/24/2024 03:29
Changes: 06/23/2018 08:36 (70), 02/21/2020 10:20 (5), 08/22/2022 09:37 (4), 03/28/2023 14:50 (2), 03/28/2023 14:53 (12), 03/28/2023 14:55 (1), 08/24/2024 03:29 (16)
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