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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-m429-fhmv-c6q2)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416702

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x
 before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during
 installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads
 to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation
 scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.
 (CVE-2020-14365)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m429-fhmv-c6q2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416702

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14365

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14365

IAVB: 2020-B-0073-S

cwe: CWE-347