CVE-2020-1734
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-03-03 21:23
Modified
2024-08-04 06:46
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Red HatAnsible
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