CVE-2020-10685

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.189

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Python-ansible 2.7.17	Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Python-ansible 2.8.11	Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Python-ansible 2.9.7	Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities are affected in Python-ansible 2.8.10	Windows
Multiple vulnerabilities are affected in Python-ansible 2.9.6	Windows
ansible security update(DSA-4950-1) ansible_2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1_all.deb	Linux
ansible security update(DSA-4950-1) Debian_ansible_2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1_all.deb	Linux
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Python-ansible for linux 2.7.17	Linux
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Python-ansible for linux 2.8.11	Linux
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in Python-ansible for linux 2.9.7	Linux
Multiple vulnerabilities are affected in Python-ansible for linux 2.8.10	Linux
Multiple vulnerabilities are affected in Python-ansible for linux 2.9.6	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234