Medium severity · published May 11, 2020
CVE-2020-10685
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and…
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AE
Ansible Engine · Redhat
2.7.0 before 2.7.17; 2.8.0 before 2.8.11; 2.9.0 before 2.9.7 · source: NVD
AT
Ansible Tower · Redhat
through 3.4.5; 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; 3.6.0 through 3.6.3 · source: NVD
CS
Ceph Storage · Redhat
2.0; 3.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openstack · Redhat
10; 13; 15 · source: NVD
ST
Storage · Redhat
3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10685
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10685
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
Patch
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
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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