CVE-2020-10691

Description

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

How to fix CVE-2020-10691

To remediate CVE-2020-10691, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 2.9.7-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 2.9.7-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 2.9.7+dfsg-1 or later
• —upgrade to 2.9.7 or later
• —upgrade to 2.9.7 or later

Is CVE-2020-10691 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 2.9.7-r0
• from 0, < 2.9.7-r0
• from 0, < 2.9.7+dfsg-1
• >= 2.9.0a1, < 2.9.7
• >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7

CVSS scores

References (9)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-3c67-gc48-983w
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10691
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-10691
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10691
• PATCH