CVE-2020-10685: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Ansible Engine: from 2.7.0, before 2.7.17 (fixed in 2.7.17); from 2.8.0, before 2.8.11 (fixed in 2.8.11); from 2.9.0, before 2.9.7 (fixed in 2.9.7)
• Red Hat Ansible Tower: up to and including 3.4.5; from 3.5.0, up to and including 3.5.5; from 3.6.0, up to and including 3.6.3
• Red Hat Ceph Storage: version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Openstack: version 10 only; version 13 only; version 15 only
• Red Hat Storage: version 3.0 only

Published 2020-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.