ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive

A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p "; this operation does not fail if...

Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine. When using ansiblefacts as a subkey of itself, and promoting it to a variable when injecting is enabled, overwriting the ansiblefacts after the clean, an attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansiblefacts leading to privilege escalation or...

ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node...

Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive information

A security flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when managing Kubernetes using the k8s connection plugin. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to the kubectl command line instead of using environment variables or an input configuration file, which is safer. This flaw...

ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive

A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p "; this operation does not fail if...

Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine. When using ansiblefacts as a subkey of itself, and promoting it to a variable when injecting is enabled, overwriting the ansiblefacts after the clean, an attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansiblefacts leading to privilege escalation or...

Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive information

A security flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when managing Kubernetes using the k8s connection plugin. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to the kubectl command line instead of using environment variables or an input configuration file, which is safer. This flaw...

Ansible: archive traversal vulnerability in ansible-galaxy collection install

An archive traversal flaw was found in Ansible Engine 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...

Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine. When using ansiblefacts as a subkey of itself, and promoting it to a variable when injecting is enabled, overwriting the ansiblefacts after the clean, an attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansiblefacts leading to privilege escalation or...

ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node...

Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up

A flaw was found on Ansible Engine when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, wincopy, awss3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the secrets unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root...

ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a parameter

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine. When a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs...

Ansible Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-33255)

Ansible is a computer system configuration manager from the American company Ansible. The product can be used to publish, manage, and orchestrate computer systems.Ansible Tower is one of the task control applications that provides a user interface UI, dashboard, and REST API.Ansible Engine is one...

CVE-2020-10684

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine. When using ansiblefacts as a subkey of itself, and promoting it to a variable when injecting is enabled, overwriting the ansiblefacts after the clean, an attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansiblefacts leading to privilege escalation or...

CVE-2019-14905

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxosfilecopy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14905

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxosfilecopy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-14905

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxosfilecopy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14905

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxosfilecopy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS...

PYSEC-2020-206

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxosfilecopy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS...

PYSEC-2020-206

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxosfilecopy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS...