PYSEC-2020-6

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    PYSEC-2020-6

    Published: 3 Mar 2020Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ansible

    Purl: pkg:pypi/ansible

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.17

    Affected versions

    1.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    PYSEC-2020-6 | CVE-DB