CVE-2020-1734

Advisory

A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen() with shell=True, by overwriting ansible facts and the variable is not escaped by quote plugin. An attacker could take advantage and run arbitrary commands by overwriting the ansible facts.

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Vulnerability changelog

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Resources

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1734
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1734