What is CVE-2020-1734?

CVE-2020-1734 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2020-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2020-1734?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.

RCE in Red Hat Ansible

CVE-2020-1734

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 att…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.001 (24.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L.

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1734?: CVE-2020-1734 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2020-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2020-1734?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.