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Improper Input Validation in ansible

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 10, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

<= 2.2.0.0

Patched versions

2.2.1.0

Description

An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module before 2.2.1.0, which may fail to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active when it should have been changed.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 26, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 10, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-8647

GHSA ID

GHSA-x4cm-m36h-c6qj

Source code

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