CVE-2020-1734 vulnerability in Red Hat Products
Published on March 3, 2020
A 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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-1734 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Shell injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2020-1734 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-1734
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Affected Versions
Red Hat Ansible Version n/a is affected by CVE-2020-1734Exploit Probability
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