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CVE-2020-10684 (GCVE-0-2020-10684)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 11:06
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.9 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat Ansible Affected: all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17
Affected: all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.9
Affected: all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.6
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