PYSEC-2020-6

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2020-1734
Aliases
GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp

Description

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · ansibleintroduced 0, fixed 2.7.17

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database