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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-893h-35v4-mxqx)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412557

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, and 2.9.6 and prior when using the Extract-
 Zip function from the win_unzip module as the extracted file(s) are not checked if they belong to the
 destination folder. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting an archive anywhere in the
 file system, using a path traversal. This issue is fixed in 2.10. (CVE-2020-1737)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-893h-35v4-mxqx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412557

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1737

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Threat Score: 5.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/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: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1737

IAVB: 2019-B-0092-S

cwe: CWE-22