CVE-2020-10691

unknown
Published 2021-04-20 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

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.

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-2020-10691.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10691

OS impact

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

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIansible>=2.9.0a1,<2.9.72.9.7
python PyPIansible>=2.9.0,<2.9.72.9.7

References

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