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CVE-2020-10691

Published: 30 April 2020

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
functionality introduced in ansible 2.9

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.2

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ansible
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needs triage

groovy Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
impish Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(2.9.7+dfsg-1)
trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.2
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L