CVE-2020-10684

Publication date 24 March 2020

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored changes too intrusive
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored changes too intrusive

Notes

john-breton

Versions prior to 2.5 did not have RESTRICTED_RESULT_KEYS, making a fix very intrusive and likely infeasible.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ansible	Upstream: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68431/commits/e26374d30ced2585e6f10a2488a54ad23a115f8b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.9 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H