CVE-2020-10684: Code Injection, Race Condition, and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Ansible
(updated )
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.11, and 2.9.7 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.
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10684
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rq
- github.com/ansible/ansible
- github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/0b4788a71fc7d24ffa957a94ee5e23d6a9733ab0
- github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1d0d2645eed36ac4e17052ab4eacf240132d96fb
- github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/5eabf7bb93c9bfc375b806a2b1f623d650cddc2b
- github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/a9d2ceafe429171c0e2ad007058b88bae57c74ce
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-207.yaml
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10684
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
- www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
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