CVE-2020-1734

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.4 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2020-03-03

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

• Ansible (Red Hat)
• Ansible Engine (Redhat)
• Ansible Tower (Redhat)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792