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CVE-2020-1740

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Published: Mar 16, 2020Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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4.7
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Affected (14)

4 products
Ansible
Ansible Tower
Cloudforms Management Engine
Openstack
1 product
Debian Linux
1 product
Fedora
Configuration A
9 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Redhat
Before 2.7.17
From 2.8.0 to 2.8.11
From 2.9.0 to 2.9.7
Redhat
Up to 3.3.4
From 3.3.5 to 3.4.5
From 3.5.0 to 3.5.5
From 3.6.0 to 3.6.3
Version 5.0
Version 13
Configuration B
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Debian
Version 10.0
Version 8.0
Configuration C
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Fedoraproject
Version 30
Version 31
Version 32

References (16)

Source: secalert@redhat.com
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

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