Missing Authorization Affecting ansible package, versions <0:2.7.17-1.el7ae


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ANSIBLE-5354410
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed23 Mar 2020

Introduced: 23 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10684  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ansible to version 0:2.7.17-1.el7ae or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1544.

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 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 would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

CVSS Scores

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