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CVE-2020-10684 — A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2

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

CVSS
7.9 HIGH
EPSS
0.02% (top 93.90%)
CWE
CWE-94, CWE-862, CWE-362
Published
2020-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T11:06:10.659Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatAnsibleall Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.9, all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.6

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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