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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432017

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2020-1734)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432017

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1734

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Threat Score: 5.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1734

IAVB: 2019-B-0092-S

cwe: CWE-78