High severity · published Mar 3, 2020
CVE-2020-1734
A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible
7.4
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AE
Ansible Engine · Redhat
through 2.7.16; 2.8.8; 2.9.5 · source: NVD
AT
Ansible Tower · Redhat
through 3.3.4; 3.4.5; 3.5.5; 3.6.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1734
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1734
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792
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