7.4
HIGH
CVE-2020-1734
Ansible Pipe Lookup Plugin Command Injection Vulnerability
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

March 3, 2020, 10:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Feb. 12, 2023, 11:40 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

6.0

Exploitability Score :

0.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-1734 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat ansible_engine
2 Redhat ansible_tower
3 Redhat ansible
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2020-1734.

URL Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792 Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2020-1734 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-1734 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 12, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0547 [No Types Assigned]
    Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1539 [No Types Assigned]
    Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1734 [No Types Assigned]
    Removed Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801804 [No Types Assigned]
    Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-78
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 02, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3 Red Hat, Inc. AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
    Added CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0547 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1539 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801804 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1734 [No Types Assigned]
    Removed CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-78
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    May. 29, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Removed CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Removed CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 05, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792 No Types Assigned https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-78
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 2.7.16 *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 3.3.4 *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-1734 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.04 }} 0.00%

score

0.10719

percentile

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