Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-10685 · published 11 May 2020
CVE-2020-10685: Redhat ansible engine vulnerability
Redhat · Ansible Engine
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.
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/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
6 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685 | Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433 | PatchThird Party Advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685 | Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433 | PatchThird Party Advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950 | Third Party Advisory |
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Related vulnerabilities
Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-10685), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-29). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.
