PYSEC-2020-7: ansible fixed in 2.9.6, 2.8.9 and 2.7.17

PYSEC-2020-7 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from OSV · Published March 16, 2020

ansible is fixed in 2.9.6, 2.8.9 and 2.7.17 (PyPI)

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
ansible	PyPI	2.9.6, 2.8.9, 2.7.17

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
PyPI	ansible	2.6.0a1, 0, 2.8.0

Timeline

Mar 16, 2020 CVE Published
Nov 8, 2023 CVE Updated
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

Query this with the API

The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln PYSEC-2020-7
vulnetix vdb fixes PYSEC-2020-7

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/PYSEC-2020-7/fixes/registry"

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