CVE-2020-1734

HIGH

Ansible Engine < 2.7.16 and Ansible Tower < 3.3.4 - OS Command Injection via Pipe Lookup Plugin

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-78
Status published
Products (8)
pypi/ansible 2.10.0a1 - 2.10.0rc1PyPI
redhat/ansible_engine 2.8.8
redhat/ansible_engine 2.9.5
redhat/ansible_engine < 2.7.16
redhat/ansible_tower 3.4.5
redhat/ansible_tower 3.5.5
redhat/ansible_tower 3.6.3
redhat/ansible_tower < 3.3.4
Published Mar 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026