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PYSEC-2020-207

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible
Introduced in: 2.7.0 Fixed in: 2.7.17
Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.7.17'

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