high7.4
CVE-2020-1734
A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible.
Impact
A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen() with shell=True, by overwriting ansible facts and the variable is not escaped by quote plugin. An attacker could take advantage and run arbitrary commands by overwriting the ansible facts.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Ansible Engine | through 2.7.16 Versions 2.8.8, 2.9.5 |
| Redhat | Ansible Tower | through 3.3.4 Versions 3.4.5, 3.5.5, 3.6.3 |