CVE-2020-10691

lowpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.003 · 23 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.30% (23rd) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

cvss

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

5.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.6–5.2

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v3.15.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2 · impact 2.7

v3.15.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2 · impact 2.7

v3.15.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Lsecondary · OSV

v3.14.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Red Hat Ansible≤ all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7enisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible engine2.9.0 → 2.9.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat ansible tower= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI ansible2.9.0 → 2.9.7osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible
PyPI ansible2.9.0a1 → 2.9.7osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-3c67-gc48-983wPath Traversal in Ansible2021-04-20ghsa · osvUS
An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running `ansible-galaxy collection` install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.
PYSEC-2020-22020-04-30vendor · osvUS
An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-04-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (11)

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