CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-10685
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-459
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.
Affected configurations
• redhat ansible engine (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.17)
• redhat ansible engine (>= 2.8.0 < 2.8.11)
• redhat ansible engine (>= 2.9.0 < 2.9.7)
• redhat ansible tower (<= 3.4.5)
• redhat ansible tower (>= 3.5.0 <= 3.5.5)
• redhat ansible tower (>= 3.6.0 <= 3.6.3)
• redhat ceph storage 2.0
• redhat ceph storage 3.0
• redhat openstack 10
• redhat openstack 13
• redhat openstack 15
• redhat storage 3.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950 Third Party Advisory