CVE-2020-10684A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using…
- 7.9HighCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 73% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 73% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.9.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rq (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- FEDORA-2020-1b6ce91e37 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-3990f03ba3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-f80154b5b4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202006-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- DSA-4950 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10684 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0019 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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