CVE-2020-10684

unknown
Published 2021-04-07 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10684.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10684

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debiantrixiefixed2.9.7+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.9.7+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2.9.7+dfsg-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.9.7+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.9.7+dfsg-1
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIansible>=2.7.0a1,<2.7.172.7.17
python PyPIansible>=2.8.0a1,<2.8.112.8.11
python PyPIansible>=2.9.0a1,<2.9.72.9.7
python PyPIansible>=2.9.0,<2.9.62.7.17

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.