GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-10685
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- ansible
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-377, CWE-459, CWE-668
- Reviewed
- 2021-04-05
Affected packages
• PyPI ansible: >= 2.7.0a1, < 2.7.17 → fixed in 2.7.17
• PyPI ansible: >= 2.8.0a1, < 2.8.11 → fixed in 2.8.11
• PyPI ansible: >= 2.9.0a1, < 2.9.7 → fixed in 2.9.7
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.
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Weakness · not in database (1)
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-10685 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… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10685 advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433 web
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/4e1fe80e681fa466626e9dea53efe6b0253ea1b2 web
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/51d2514753544a9d58cd7524e27e696b2c944fb5 web
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/e1273b6faf036ed84e4f4edee85b888a4e256aee web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4 advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-1.yaml web
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11 web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950 web