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PYSEC-2020-206

Details

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS command injections. This could result in a loss of confidentiality of the system among other issues.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible

Introduced in: 2.7.0 Fixed in: 2.7.16

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.7.16'

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0218 [ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0216 [ADVISORY]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5BNCYPQ4BY5QHBCJOAOPANB5FHATW2BR/ [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14905 [REPORT]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00021.html [WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00026.html [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-frxj-5j27-f8rf [ADVISORY]