CVE-2016-8647

Publication date 26 July 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

fails on mysql forks percona 5.7 and newer, all mariadb

john-breton

Vulnerable code not introduced until 2.0

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ansible	Upstream: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5388/commits/2dbbca65db5e88c7a75c75d9fa5a16d6a34f0dbc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N