CVE-2020-14365
Description
A 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.
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 | 2.9.13+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.9.13+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.9.13+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.9.13+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.9.13+dfsg-1 |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-14365
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14365
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1d043e082b3b1f3ad35c803137f5d3bcbae92275
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1fa2d5fd6b768120b76a77929e27302b06accc0c
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/9bea33ffa3be3d64827f59882d95b817cfab9b7e
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869154
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m429-fhmv-c6q2
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-209.yaml
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14365.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.