CVE-2020-1740 LOW

CVE-2020-1740

Vendor Red Hat
Product ansible
Weakness CWE-377
Published March 16, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

3.9/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 16, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated