High severity · published Oct 5, 2020
CVE-2020-25636
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as there is no namespace separation for file transfers
7.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as there is no namespace separation for file transfers. Files are written directly to the root bucket, making possible to have collisions when running multiple ansible processes. This issue affects mainly the service availability.
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 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Ansible · Redhat
2.10.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25636
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25636
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25636
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/221
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