Medium severity · published Mar 16, 2020
CVE-2020-1735
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used
4.6
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Ansible · Redhat
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 3.3.4; 3.3.5 through 3.4.5; 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; 3.6.0 through 3.6.3 · source: NVD
CM
Cloudforms Management Engine · Redhat
5.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31; 32 · source: NVD
OP
Openstack · Redhat
13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1735
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1735
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1735
Exploit
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67793
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
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