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CVE-2020-10691

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 ...

Published: Apr 30, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-22
NVD MITRE
5.2CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 72.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Path Traversal in Ansible

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:NI:LA:L
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected Products

ansiblePyPIOSS Libraries
AnsibleRed Hat
On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
ansible engineredhat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
ansible towerredhat
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
red hatcommercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
redhatcommercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Workaround Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10691
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68596
github.com
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/b2551bb6943eec078066aa3a923e0bb3ed85abe8
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Apr 30, 2020
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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