OS Command Injection Affecting ansible package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ANSIBLE-5250698
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed18 Feb 2020

Introduced: 18 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-1734  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 ansible.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible package and not the ansible package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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