CVE-2020-10685
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2020-10685 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2020-05-11 14:15:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2023-11-07 03:14:00 UTC |
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| 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. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| 1814627 – (CVE-2020-10685) CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up |
CONFIRM |
bugzilla.redhat.com |
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| Ansible: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202006-11) — Gentoo security |
GENTOO |
security.gentoo.org |
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| fix vault temp file handling by bcoca · Pull Request #68433 · ansible/ansible · GitHub |
CONFIRM |
github.com |
Patch, Third Party Advisory |
| Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4950-1 ansible |
DEBIAN |
www.debian.org |
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| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 178744 Debian Security Update for ansible (DSA 4950-1)
- 356226 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ansible : ALASANSIBLE2-2023-008
- 981361 Python (pip) Security Update for ansible (GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4)
