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ansible, ansible-base — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: ALPINE-CVE-2020-10691

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.

Products
ansible, ansible-base
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.9.7-r0
CVEs
CVE-2020-10691
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:00 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

ALPINE-CVE-2020-10691

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Apr 2020, 17:15 UTC

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.

osv:ALPINE-CVE-2020-10691

ansible

Fixed versions: 2.9.7-r0

ansible

Fixed versions: 2.9.7-r0

ansible-base

Fixed versions: 2.9.7-r0

ansible-base

Fixed versions: 2.9.7-r0

Complete source record
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