VDB
CVE-2020-1734
CVE-2020-1734
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.08% · 24.2th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.08%
24.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | ansible | 1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS | ansible | 0, 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm4, 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | ansible | 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm4, 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm3, 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm2 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | ansible | 12.0.0~a2+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~a6+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~b1+dfsg-1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | ansible | 0, 1.9.2+dfsg-2, 1.9.4-1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS | ansible | 0, 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | ansible | 9.2.0+dfsg-0ubuntu4, 7.7.0+dfsg-3, 7.7.0+dfsg-1 |
Timeline
- Mar 3, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 25, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 27, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1734 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801804 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1734 third-party-advisory