CVE-2020-1734

Name	CVE-2020-1734
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ansible (PTS)	buster, buster (security)	2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1	vulnerable
	bullseye	2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	7.3.0+dfsg-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
ansible	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801804
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6550
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792
Upstream considers this intended functionality and delegates it up to the
playbook author to ensure they use the quote filter.