CVE-2020-10685
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10685
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10685
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/4e1fe80e681fa466626e9dea53efe6b0253ea1b2
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/51d2514753544a9d58cd7524e27e696b2c944fb5
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/e1273b6faf036ed84e4f4edee85b888a4e256aee
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-1.yaml
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10685.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.