CVE-2020-1734
HIGH
7.4
CVSS Score
Published: March 3, 2020 at 09:23 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:02 AM UTC
3 products affected across 1 vendorAnsible TowerAnsible EngineAnsible
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Severity
HIGH7.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792CVSS
7.4HIGHredhat
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- LOW
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-78
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