{"cve":"CVE-2020-1734","nvd":{"published":"2020-03-03T22:15:10.843","modified":"2026-06-17T03:02:17.900","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L","score":7.4},"cwes":["CWE-78"],"references":["https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734","https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1734","https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67792"],"products":["redhat:ansible_engine","redhat:ansible_tower"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:02:53.949909883+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2020-1734","score":0.00458,"percentile":0.39759,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h39q-95q5-9jfp","summary":"OS Command Injection in ansible","modified":"2024-09-10T22:30:52.559547Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","ranges":[">=2.10.0a1 <2.10.0rc1"],"fixed":["2.10.0rc1"]},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","ranges":[">=2.9.0a1 <2.9.11"],"fixed":["2.9.11"]},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","ranges":["<2.8.13"],"fixed":["2.8.13"]}]},{"id":"PYSEC-2020-6","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2020-6","summary":"","modified":"2023-11-08T04:02:40.844542Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","ranges":["<2.7.17"],"fixed":["2.7.17"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}