OS Command Injection in Ansible - CVE-2020-1734

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OS Command Injection in Ansible - CVE-2020-1734

Published: September 22, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67588
CSH Severity: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-1734
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Ansible
Software vendor:
Red Hat Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. A remote unauthenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.



Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Note, the developer does not consider this a security issue.


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