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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-10691: Security patch for ansible (ALASANSIBLE2-2023-008)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-10691: Security patch for ansible (ALASANSIBLE2-2023-008)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/30/2020
Created
09/28/2023
Added
09/28/2023
Modified
09/28/2023

Description

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ansible
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ansible-doc

References

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