CVE-2020-1734 (GCVE-0-2020-1734)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-03 21:23 – Updated: 2024-08-04 06:46
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
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