High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as there is no namespace separation for file transfers. Files are written directly to the root bucket, making possible to have collisions when running multiple ansible processes. This issue affects mainly the service availability.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-25636
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as there is no namespace separation for file transfers. Files are written directly to the root bucket, making possible to have collisions when running multiple ansible processes. This issue affects mainly the service availability.
osv:CVE-2020-25636
Complete source record
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