CVE-2020-1734CWE-78

A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible

High · published March 3, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00458 · 38.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Published
2020-03-03T21:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 21:23Z
    A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible
    cvelistv5