DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1734

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-1734
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1734.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1734
Upstream
Published
2020-03-03T22:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:13:57.375933Z
Severity
  • 7.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ansible

Package

Name
ansible
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ansible?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1
2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1
2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u2
2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u3

4.*

4.6.0-1

5.*

5.4.0-1
5.5.0-1

6.*

6.3.0+dfsg-1
6.4.0+dfsg-1

7.*

7.0.0+dfsg-1
7.0.0+dfsg-2
7.1.0+dfsg-1
7.2.0+dfsg-2
7.3.0+dfsg-1
7.7.0+dfsg-1
7.7.0+dfsg-2
7.7.0+dfsg-3

9.*

9.4.0+dfsg-1
9.5.1+dfsg-1

10.*

10.0.0+dfsg-1
10.0.1+dfsg-1
10.1.0+dfsg-1
10.5.0+dfsg-1
10.5.0+dfsg-2
10.6.0+dfsg-1

11.*

11.1.0+dfsg-1
11.2.0+dfsg-1

12.*

12.0.0~a1+dfsg-1
12.0.0~a2+dfsg-1
12.0.0~a4+dfsg-1
12.0.0~a6+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b1+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b2+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b3+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b5+dfsg-1
12.0.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / ansible

Package

Name
ansible
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ansible?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

7.*

7.3.0+dfsg-1
7.7.0+dfsg-1
7.7.0+dfsg-2
7.7.0+dfsg-3
7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1

9.*

9.4.0+dfsg-1
9.5.1+dfsg-1

10.*

10.0.0+dfsg-1
10.0.1+dfsg-1
10.1.0+dfsg-1
10.5.0+dfsg-1
10.5.0+dfsg-2
10.6.0+dfsg-1

11.*

11.1.0+dfsg-1
11.2.0+dfsg-1

12.*

12.0.0~a1+dfsg-1
12.0.0~a2+dfsg-1
12.0.0~a4+dfsg-1
12.0.0~a6+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b1+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b2+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b3+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b5+dfsg-1
12.0.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / ansible

Package

Name
ansible
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ansible?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

12.*

12.0.0~a6+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b1+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b2+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b3+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b5+dfsg-1
12.0.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / ansible

Package

Name
ansible
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ansible?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

12.*

12.0.0~a6+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b1+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b2+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b3+dfsg-1
12.0.0~b5+dfsg-1
12.0.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}