CVE-2017-7466

Ansible en versiones anteriores a la 2.3 tiene una vulnerabilidad de validación de entradas en la gestión de datos enviados desde los sistemas del cliente. Un atacante que tenga el control de un sistema de cliente gestionado por Ansible y la capacidad de enviar hechos de vuelta al servidor de Ansible podría usar este error para ejecutar código arbitrario en el servidor de Ansible utilizando los privilegios del servidor de Ansible.

An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's 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.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. Ansible is a SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system. The openshift-ansible packages contain Ansible code and playbooks for installing and upgrading OpenShift Container Platform 3. Security Fix: An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's 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.