CVE-2020-1734

HighCVSS 7.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.4/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-78

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 3, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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