CVE-2020-1738

Severity: low (CVSS 3.9 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: 2020-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-88

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified. If a previous task is executed with a malicious user, the module sent can be selected by the attacker using the ansible facts file. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible: through 2.7.16; from 2.8.0 through 2.8.8; from 2.9.0 through 2.9.5
Tower: through 3.3.4; from 3.3.5 through 3.4.5; from 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; from 3.6.0 through 3.6.3
Red Hat CloudForms: 5.0
OpenStack: 13

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1738
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67796
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1738
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67796
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11

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