CVE-2020-14365
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ansible
7.1
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.07%
Description
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.
How to fix CVE-2020-14365
To remediate CVE-2020-14365, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.8.15-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.13-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.13+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.8.15 or later
- —upgrade to 2.8.16rc1 or later
Is CVE-2020-14365 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 2.8.15-r0
- from 0, < 2.9.13-r0
- from 0, < 2.9.13+dfsg-1
- >= 2.8.0a1, < 2.8.15
- >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.16rc1, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.14rc1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |