CVE-2020-10691

Medium

Description

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.2
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Ansible Engine
PublishedApr 30, 2020
First seenApr 30, 2020

How to fix

Update
  • redhat ansible_engine2.9.7 or later
  • ansible2.9.7 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat ansible_engine2.9.0 ≤ v < 2.9.72.9.7
redhat ansible_tower3.0—
ansiblePyPI2.9.0a1 ≤ v < 2.9.7, 2.9.0 ≤ v < 2.9.72.9.7

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