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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-05-11T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:06:10.628Z

Reserved: 2020-03-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-10685

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-05-11T14:15:11.853

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:55:51.027

Link: CVE-2020-10685

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-03-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-10685 - Bugzilla