| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 11.1.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ansible | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| ansible | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| ansible | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| ansible | source | (unstable) | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817161
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68596
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/b2551bb6943eec078066aa3a923e0bb3ed85abe8 (stable-2.9)