CVE-2016-8628: Red Hat Ansible

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible: before 2.2.0 (fixed in 2.2.0)

Published 2018-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.