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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-3c67-gc48-983w)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409449

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2020-10691)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c67-gc48-983w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409449

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10691

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10691

IAVB: 2020-B-0016-S

cwe: CWE-22