OS Command Injection in Ansible - CVE-2020-1734
Published: September 22, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU67588
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Ansible
Ansible
Detailed vulnerability 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-1734
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Note, the developer does not consider this a security issue.