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CVE-2020-1734


A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen() with shell=True, by overwriting ansible facts and the variable is not escaped by quote plugin. An attacker could take advantage and run arbitrary commands by overwriting the ansible facts.


Published

2020-03-03T22:15:10.843

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:11:16.197

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.4 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: HIGH
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

1.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-78
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-78

Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application redhat ansible_engine ≤ 2.7.16 Yes
Application redhat ansible_engine 2.8.8 Yes
Application redhat ansible_engine 2.9.5 Yes
Application redhat ansible_tower ≤ 3.3.4 Yes
Application redhat ansible_tower 3.4.5 Yes
Application redhat ansible_tower 3.5.5 Yes
Application redhat ansible_tower 3.6.3 Yes

References