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SUSE: CVE-2020-1734: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-1734: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2020
Created
03/21/2022
Added
03/19/2022
Modified
10/26/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ansible
  • suse-upgrade-ansible-doc
  • suse-upgrade-ansible-test

References

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