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GHSA-F556-49JC-4RVC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-31 17:31 – Updated: 2025-10-31 17:31

Summary

Ansible does not collect garbage after playbook run

Details

A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as its garbage collector is not happening after the playbook run is completed. Files would remain in the bucket exposing the data. This issue directly affects data confidentiality.

Severity ?

5.0 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2020-25635 (GCVE-0-2020-25635)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-05 13:23 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:40

Summary

A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as garbage collector is not happening after playbook run is completed. Files would remain in the bucket exposing the data. This issue affects directly data confidentiality.

Severity ?

5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-212

Assigner

redhat

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	AWS Community	Community Collections	Affected: from 1.0.0 to 1.2.0

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-F556-49JC-4RVC

CVE-2020-25635 (GCVE-0-2020-25635)

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