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CVE-2020-10691: Path Traversal

April 30, 2020 (updated May 21, 2020)

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine, 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.

References

  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10691
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10691

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.9.0 before 2.9.7

Fixed versions

  • 2.9.7

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.9.7 or above.

Impact 5.2 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Source file

pypi/ansible/CVE-2020-10691.yml

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