High severity · published Mar 24, 2020
CVE-2020-10684
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting…
7.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Ansible · Redhat
2.7.0 before 2.7.17; 2.8.0 before 2.8.9; 2.9.0 before 2.9.6 · source: NVD
AT
Ansible Tower · Redhat
through 3.3.5; 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; 3.6.0 through 3.6.3 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31; 32 · source: NVD
OP
Openstack · Redhat
10; 13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10684
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10684
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10684
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
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