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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.2

CVE-2020-10691 json

Path Traversal in Ansible

published 2020-04-30 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3c67-gc48-983w , PYSEC-2020-2 , EUVD-2020-0011

cvss
5.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ansible 2.9.7
  • redhat ansible_engine 2.9.7
  • ansible Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.9.7+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10691

  • ansible ansible engine 2.9, ansible engine 2 2.9.7-1.el7ae
  • ansible ansible engine 2.9, ansible engine 2 2.9.7-1.el8ae
  • ansible-test ansible engine 2.9, ansible engine 2 2.9.7-1.el7ae
  • ansible-test ansible engine 2.9, ansible engine 2 2.9.7-1.el8ae

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:1542RHSA-2020:1541

  • storm OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.2.3-3.6.1
  • ansible OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 2.9.14-3.15.1
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 6.7.4-4.12.1
  • ardana-mq OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1593618123.678c32b-3.26.1
  • ardana-nova OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1601298847.dd01585-3.42.1
  • crowbar-core OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 5.0+git.1600432272.b3ad722f0-3.44.1
  • python-kombu OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 4.1.0-3.7.1
  • ardana-cinder OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1596129856.263f430-3.43.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:3309-1

  • ansible-14 openSUSE Tumbleweed 14.6.0-1.1
  • ansible-13 openSUSE Tumbleweed 13.7.0-1.1
  • ansible-12 openSUSE Tumbleweed 12.2.0-1.1
  • ansible-11 openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.11.0-1.1
  • ansible-10 openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.6.0-1.1
  • ansible-9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.8.0-1.1
  • ansible Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 2.9.21-bp153.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12447-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10944-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15605-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14244-1

  • ansible Alpine 3.12, Alpine 3.11 2.9.7-r0
  • ansible-base Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.13 2.9.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-10691

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-10691 updated cvss 5.2

Ansible: archive traversal vulnerability in ansible-galaxy collection install

  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 ansible 2.9.7-1.el7ae, ansible-test 2.9.7-1.el7ae Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 ansible 2.9.7-1.el8ae, ansible-test 2.9.7-1.el8ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1542
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 Server ansible 2.9.7-1.el7ae, ansible-test 2.9.7-1.el7ae Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 ansible 2.9.7-1.el8ae, ansible-test 2.9.7-1.el8ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1541
  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7 ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower 3.6.4-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2020:1540
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ansible Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) ansible Red Hat Storage 3 ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ansible
>=2.9.0a1, <2.9.7
>=2.9.0, <2.9.7
2.9.7

Affected products

  • Red Hat Ansible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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