CVE-2020-1734
HIGHAnsible Engine < 2.7.16 and Ansible Tower < 3.3.4 - OS Command Injection via Pipe Lookup Plugin
Title source: llmDescription
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