Red Hat Ansible

CVE-2020-10685
MEDIUM 5.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.36 % · percentile 30 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-459 — Incomplete Cleanup

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Red Hat · Ansibleaffected ansible-engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 ; affected ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.11 ; affected ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.7 ; affected Ansible Tower <= 3.4.5 ; affected Ansible Tower <= 3.5.5 ; affected Ansible Tower <= 3.6.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD