CVE-2020-1738

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified. If a previous task is executed with a malicious user, the module sent can be selected by the attacker using the ansible facts file. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Score

CVSS 3.1 3.9 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2020-03-16

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-88

Affected products

• Ansible (Red Hat)
• Ansible (Redhat)
• Ansible Tower (Redhat)
• Cloudforms Management Engine (Redhat)
• Openstack (Redhat)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1738
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67796
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11