CVE-2020-10684

lowpriority · track · 28OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.003 · 27 %ileDEEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.33% (27th) EPSS
CVSS 3.6 · low
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Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.9
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 3.6–7.9

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.2
v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Psecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.17.9highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.17.9highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1.5 · impact 5.8
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-862USprimaryCWE-250USCWE-362USCWE-362USCWE-362USCWE-862USCWE-94USCWE-94USCWE-94US
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affected products (48)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2023-2477Ansible: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2020-03-24csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Ansible ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

  • GHSA-p62g-jhg6-v3rqCode Injection, Race Condition, and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Ansible2021-04-07ghsa · osvUS

    A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.11, and 2.9.7 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

  • PYSEC-2020-2072020-03-24vendor · osvUS

    A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

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also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bduosvcert_bundNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2020-03-24modified 2026-06-17
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references (27)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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