CVE-2020-10685

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.

Bugs

• <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433&gt;