Security advisory

{
  "id": "14d3be6b25efa84efcd93b0918893e0f1908ee3b8c8db1460c131c06f8c78e63",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10691",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-10691",
    "summary": "An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-10691",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-10691",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-10691",
        "GHSA-3c67-gc48-983w",
        "PYSEC-2020-2"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "24325a05dfb9104d6d4ec8b488b89e07c2e6d376"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ff7bbbcaf1e8f434432075bc9c55626a9dd3091d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.9.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.9.7"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2.9.6",
            "v2.9.5",
            "v2.9.4",
            "v2.9.3",
            "v2.9.2",
            "v2.9.1",
            "v2.9.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-10691.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:58.906949389Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10691",
        "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68596"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:ansible_tower",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "3.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-10691",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382413,
  "published_at": "2020-04-30T17:15:11.957+00:00"
}