CVE-2020-10691 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-10691

Vendor Red Hat
Product Ansible
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published April 30, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

5.2/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 30, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated