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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rq)
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417319
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6
respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is
enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by
altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into
privilege escalation or code injection. (CVE-2020-10684)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 417319
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: 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-2020-10684
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: 4/7/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-10684