Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in Red Hat Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower - CVE-2020-10685

Vulnerability identifier: #VU29022

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10685

CWE-ID:

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists in Ansible Engine when using modules which decrypts vault files such as "assemble", "script", "unarchive", "win_copy", "aws_s3" or "copy modules". A local user can gain unathorized access to sensitive information on the target system.

Red Hat Ansible Engine
Ansible Tower
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
openEuler
ansible (Debian package)
ansible
ansible-help
ansible (Red Hat package)
Ansible

Install updates from vendor's website.

Red Hat Ansible Engine - addressed in versions 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7
Ansible Tower - addressed in versions 3.5.6, 3.6.4
ansible (Debian package) - update to 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1
ansible - update to 2.5.5-10
ansible-help - update to 2.5.5-10
Ansible - addressed in versions 2.7.17-1.el7ae, 2.8.11-1.el7ae, 2.8.11-1.el8ae, 2.9.7-1.el7ae, 2.9.7-1.el8ae
ansible - addressed in versions 2.9.7-1.el7, 2.9.7-1.el8, 2.9.7-1.fc30, 2.9.7-1.fc31, 2.9.7-1.fc32
ansible (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.9.7-1.el7ae, 2.9.7-1.el8ae

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Engine
• Gentoo update for Ansible
• Debian update for ansible
• Ansible Engine 2 update for ansible
• Ansible Engine 2 update for ansible
• Ansible Engine 2 update for ansible
• Red Hat update for Ansible engine
• Fedora 32 update for ansible
• Fedora 30 update for ansible
• Fedora 31 update for ansible
• Fedora EPEL 8 update for ansible
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for ansible
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP4 update for ansible