CVE-2020-14365

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14365
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-23 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-05 15:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-347

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Engine All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Engine All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower All All All All
Application Redhat Ceph Storage 2.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ceph Storage 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ceph Storage 2.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ceph Storage 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack Platform 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack Platform 13.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack Platform 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack Platform 13.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1869154 – (CVE-2020-14365) CVE-2020-14365 ansible: dnf module install packages with no GPG signature MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4950-1 ansible DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178744 Debian Security Update for ansible (DSA 4950-1)
  • 356179 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ansible : ALASANSIBLE2-2023-005
  • 375885 Ansible Engine Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
  • 500006 Alpine Linux Security Update for ansible
  • 501347 Alpine Linux Security Update for ansible-base
  • 981388 Python (pip) Security Update for ansible (GHSA-m429-fhmv-c6q2)
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