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CVE-2020-1734

A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen()…

High7.4EPSS 0.46%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

Description

A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen() with shell=True, by overwriting ansible facts and the variable is not escaped by quote plugin. An attacker could take advantage and run arbitrary commands by overwriting the ansible facts.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By redhat

  2. · 3 months later

    Published

  3. · 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2020-1734, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
redhatCNA (assigner)3.1High7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.

Weakness

Affected products

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (2)

Sources

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