CVE-2020-10685
The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.38% probability · 31th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-459
- Affected
- redhat/ansible engine · redhat/ansible tower · redhat/ceph storage · redhat/openstack · redhat/storage · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.