{"answers":{"affected":"7 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 6 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10685 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade ansible to a fixed version for your release line: 2.7.17, 2.8.11 or 2.9.7.","what":"CVE-2020-10685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-10685 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-10685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10685 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.7.0; fixed in 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.7.0a1; fixed in 2.7.17\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.7.0a1; fixed in 2.7.17\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.8.0a1; fixed in 2.8.11\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.8.0a1; fixed in 2.8.11\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.9.0a1; fixed in 2.9.7\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.9.0a1; fixed in 2.9.7\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10685/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10685/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-10685","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10685/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-10685","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10685","GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4","OESA-2025-2065","PYSEC-2020-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10685"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ansible automation tool","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Ansible leaves decrypted vault files in /tmp, allowing local attackers to read sensitive data if the system is powered off.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"ansible_engine","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"ansible_tower","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"ceph_storage","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"openstack","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"storage","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-459","name":"Incomplete Cleanup"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible","id":"CVE-2020-10685","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","redhat:ansible_tower","redhat:openstack"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2020"},"n_packages":7,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Keycloak users may be able to remove MFA from other users' devices","id":"CVE-2020-10686"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17","2.8.11","2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.7.0","2.8.0","2.9.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"PYSEC-2020-1"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17"],"introduced":["2.7.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17"],"introduced":["2.7.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.8.11"],"introduced":["2.8.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.8.11"],"introduced":["2.8.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.9.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.9.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-77g3-3j5w-64w4"}],"prev":{"headline":"Code Injection, Race Condition, and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Ansible","id":"CVE-2020-10684"},"products":["Ansible"],"published":"2020-05-11","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["Red Hat"]},"summary":"Ansible leaves decrypted vault files in /tmp, allowing local attackers to read sensitive data if the system is powered off.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10685/"}