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CVE-2020-1734

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

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.

Affected products

• RedHat Ansible Engine: through 2.7.16; 2.8.8, 2.9.5
• Tower: through 3.3.4; 3.4.5, 3.5.5, 3.6.3

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792

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