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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4)
medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411896
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before
2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and
3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3
or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating
Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot
and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not
running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted
ble. (CVE-2020-10685)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 411896
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: 3
Percentile: 23.18
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Medium
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 1.9
Temporal Score: 1.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10685
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Threat Score: 4.3
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-10685