CVE-2020-10691
Description
An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10691
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68596
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/b2551bb6943eec078066aa3a923e0bb3ed85abe8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10691
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c67-gc48-983w
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-2.yaml
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10691
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10691.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.