{"id":"CVE-2020-10684","aliases":["GHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rq","PYSEC-2020-207"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10684","summary":"Code Injection, Race Condition, and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Ansible","details":"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.","published":"2020-03-24T14:15:12.327Z","modified":"2026-08-07T11:31:08.634834566Z","cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":null,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","fixedVersion":"2.7.17"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","fixedVersion":"2.8.11"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","fixedVersion":"2.9.7"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/0b4788a71fc7d24ffa957a94ee5e23d6a9733ab0","label":"ansible/ansible@0b4788a"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10684"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10684"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/0b4788a71fc7d24ffa957a94ee5e23d6a9733ab0"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1d0d2645eed36ac4e17052ab4eacf240132d96fb"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/5eabf7bb93c9bfc375b806a2b1f623d650cddc2b"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/a9d2ceafe429171c0e2ad007058b88bae57c74ce"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rq"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/ansible/ansible"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-207.yaml"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-07T11:31:08.634834566Z"}}