Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9587  

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 commands on the ansible server as the user and group ansible is running as.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary command execution

Description

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 commands on the ansible server as the user and group ansible is running as.

AVG-137 ansible 2.2.0.0-1 2.2.1.0rc5-3 High Fixed

https://www.computest.nl/advisories/CT-2017-0109_Ansible.txt