CVE-2020-10685

Medium

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Ansible Engine
PublishedMay 11, 2020
First seenMay 11, 2020
Weakness typeCWE-459CWE-459

How to fix

Update
  • redhat ansible_engine2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7 or later
  • ansible2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat ansible_engine2.7.0 ≤ v < 2.7.17, 2.8.0 ≤ v < 2.8.11, 2.9.0 ≤ v < 2.9.72.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7
redhat ansible_towerv ≤ 3.4.5, 3.5.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.5.5, 3.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.6.3—
redhat ceph_storage2.0, 3.0—
redhat openstack10, 13, 15—
redhat storage3.0—
debian debian_linux10.0—
ansiblePyPI2.7.0a1 ≤ v < 2.7.17, 2.8.0a1 ≤ v < 2.8.11, 2.9.0a1 ≤ v < 2.9.7, 2.7.0 ≤ v < 2.7.17, 2.8.0 ≤ v < 2.8.11, 2.9.0 ≤ v < 2.9.72.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7

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