vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2020-10684): ansible vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P) | Mar 24, 2020 | Jun 26, 2025 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 24, 2020
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.
Solution
no-fix-ubuntu-package
References
- CVE-2020-10684
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-10684
- CWE-362
- CWE-862
- CWE-94
- EUVD-EUVD-2020-0019
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1815519
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10684
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-0019
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10684
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