CVE-2020-1734

NameCVE-2020-1734
DescriptionA flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen() with shell=True, by overwriting ansible facts and the variable is not escaped by quote plugin. An attacker could take advantage and run arbitrary commands by overwriting the ansible facts.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ansible (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2vulnerable
bullseye2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1vulnerable
sid, trixie10.6.0+dfsg-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ansiblesourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
ansiblesource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801804
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6550
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792
Upstream considers this intended functionality and delegates it up to the
playbook author to ensure they use the quote filter.

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