Vulnerability in Ansible Engine Leading to Potential Privilege Escalation
CVE-2020-10684
7.9HIGH
What is CVE-2020-10684?
A security flaw exists in Ansible Engine where manipulations can be made via the ansible_facts subkey, leading to possible alterations in critical system data. When the inject feature is enabled, an attacker may overwrite essential facts, such as ansible_hosts and user credentials, which can facilitate further exploitation through privilege escalation or code injection. Users should be aware of the versions affected and ensure updates are applied to safeguard against such vulnerabilities.
Affected Version(s)
Ansible all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17
Ansible all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.9
Ansible all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.6