CVE-2020-10685

 

Published at: - 11-05-2020 04:15

Last modified: - 07-10-2022 04:15

Total changes: - 5

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
• GLSA-202006-11-Third Party Advisory
• DSA-4950-Third Party Advisory

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2020-10685

 

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Common vulnerability scoring system

 

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