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.

CVSS v3.0 7.4 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 3.7 LOW

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CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.8 / Impact : 6.0

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact LOW

Scope CHANGED

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CVSS v2.0 : LOW

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 1.9 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity HIGH

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.4.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.5.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.6.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.8.8:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.9.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower::::::::

Information

Published : 2020-03-03 14:15

Updated : 2023-02-12 15:40

NVD link : CVE-2020-1734

Mitre link : CVE-2020-1734

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CWE

CWE-78

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Products Affected

redhat

ansible_engine
ansible_tower

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