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CVE-2020-10685
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-05-11 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-459
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.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 10.0
- RedHat Ansible Engine: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.17; from 2.8.0 before 2.8.11; from 2.9.0 before 2.9.7 — fixed in 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7
- Tower: through 3.4.5; from 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; from 3.6.0 through 3.6.3
- Red Hat Ceph Storage: 2.0, 3.0
- OpenStack: 10, 13, 15
- RedHat Storage: 3.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: RedHat Ansible Engine 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
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