CVE-2017-7466
Ansible before version 2.3 has an input validation vulnerability in the handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with…
- 8.0HighCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-3m8p-xpm6-8ww3 (opens in a new tab)
References
8
- RHSA-2017:1599 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1334 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 97595 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1685 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1244 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1499 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7466 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1476 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0013 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3m8p-xpm6-8ww3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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