CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-1734

7.4 HIGH Published 2020-03-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-78

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat ansible engine (<= 2.7.16) • redhat ansible engine 2.8.8 • redhat ansible engine 2.9.5 • redhat ansible tower (<= 3.3.4) • redhat ansible tower 3.4.5 • redhat ansible tower 3.5.5 • redhat ansible tower 3.6.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References