High
ansible — security advisory
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.
- Products
- ansible
- Affected versions
- 10.0.0+dfsg-1, 10.0.1+dfsg-1, 10.1.0+dfsg-1, 10.5.0+dfsg-1, 10.5.0+dfsg-2, 10.6.0+dfsg-1, 11.1.0+dfsg-1, 11.2.0+dfsg-1, 12.0.0+dfsg-0+deb13u1, 12.0.0+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~a1+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~a2+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~a4+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~a6+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~b1+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~b2+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~b3+dfsg-1, 12.0.0~b5+dfsg-0+deb13u1, 12.0.0~b5+dfsg-1, 12.2.0+dfsg-1, 13.1.0+dfsg-1, 13.4.0+dfsg-1, 14.0.0+dfsg-1, 14.0.0~a4+dfsg-1, 14.4.0+dfsg-1, 7.3.0+dfsg-1, 7.7.0+dfsg-1, 7.7.0+dfsg-2, 7.7.0+dfsg-3, 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1, 9.4.0+dfsg-1, 9.5.1+dfsg-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1734
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1734
ansible
Fixed versions: Not specified
ansible
Fixed versions: Not specified
ansible
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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