ALPINE-CVE-2020-1740

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CVE-2020-1740
Published: 16 Mar 2020, 16:15
Last modified:19 Nov 2025, 06:17

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
19/100
CVSS Score
4.7 MEDIUM
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

16 Mar 2020, 16:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
19 Nov 2025, 06:17
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Systems

  • alpine•ansible

    < 2.8.11-r0 | < 2.9.7-r0 | < 2.9.7-r0 | < 2.7.17-r0

  • alpine•ansible-base

    < 2.9.7-r0 | < 2.9.7-r0

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