| Name | CVE-2020-1735 |
| Description | 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. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4950-1 |
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 | vulnerable | |
| 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 | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| ansible | source | buster | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | DSA-4950-1 | ||
| ansible | source | (unstable) | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
[stretch] - ansible <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
[jessie] - ansible <not-affected> (No remote expansion in fetch module)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802085
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67793
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68720
Introduced in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/e47f6137e5b897dec4319e7cb7791fb9b2cffb8d (1.8)
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/290bfa820d533dc224e0c3fa7dd7c6b907ed0189
The commit has incorrect CVE reference adressed in
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/18f91bbb88a84b1d3614ef41c3550da735592ac1