Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.7.17)[2.8.0,2.8.9)[2.9.0,2.9.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-561048
  • published24 Mar 2020
  • disclosed24 Mar 2020
  • creditNicolas Surbayrole

Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10684  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.7.17, 2.8.9, 2.9.6 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). It allows 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.

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