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Insecure Permissions Affecting ansible package, versions [2.9.0, 2.9.7)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (10th percentile)
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NVD
5.2 medium
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Red Hat
5.2 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-568018
  • published 30 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 30 Apr 2020
  • credit Felix Fountein
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Introduced: 30 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-10691 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-275 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.9.7 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Permissions within ansible-engine 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.