{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "text": "Medium" }, "category": "csaf_vex", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "TuxCare License Agreement", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Cloud Linux Inc. and provide a link to the original.", "title": "Terms of Use" } ], "publisher": { "category": "vendor", "contact_details": "https://tuxcare.com/contact/", "name": "TuxCare", "namespace": "https://tuxcare.com/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://security.tuxcare.com/csaf/v2/els_os/oraclelinux6els/vex/2020/cve-2020-1740-els_os-oraclelinux6els.json" } ], "title": "Security update on CVE-2020-1740", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2025-12-23T22:15:38Z", "generator": { "date": "2025-12-23T22:15:38Z", "engine": { "name": "pyCSAF" } }, "id": "CVE-2020-1740-ELS_OS-ORACLELINUX6ELS", "initial_release_date": "2020-03-16T16:15:00Z", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2020-03-16T16:15:00Z", "number": "1", "summary": "Initial version" }, { "date": "2025-11-29T11:05:16Z", "number": "2", "summary": "Official Publication" }, { "date": "2025-12-23T22:15:38Z", "number": "3", "summary": "Update document" } ], "status": "final", "version": "2" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_name", "name": "Oracle Linux 6", "product": { "name": "Oracle Linux 6", "product_id": "Oracle-Linux-6", "product_identification_helper": { "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" } } } ], "category": "product_family", "name": "Oracle Linux" }, { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version", "name": "ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "product": { "name": "ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "product_id": "ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/oracle/ansible@2.6.20-1.el6?arch=noarch" } } }, { "category": "product_version", "name": "ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "product": { "name": "ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "product_id": "ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/oracle/ansible-doc@2.6.20-1.el6?arch=noarch" } } } ], "category": "architecture", "name": "noarch" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "Oracle Corporation" }, { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version", "name": "ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "product": { "name": "ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "product_id": "ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/cloudlinux/ansible@2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1?arch=noarch" } } }, { "category": "product_version", "name": "ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "product": { "name": "ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "product_id": "ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:rpm/cloudlinux/ansible-doc@2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1?arch=noarch" } } } ], "category": "architecture", "name": "noarch" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "CloudLinux" } ], "relationships": [ { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch as a component of Oracle Linux 6", "product_id": "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch" }, "product_reference": "ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "relates_to_product_reference": "Oracle-Linux-6" }, { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch as a component of Oracle Linux 6", "product_id": "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch" }, "product_reference": "ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "relates_to_product_reference": "Oracle-Linux-6" }, { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch as a component of Oracle Linux 6", "product_id": "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch" }, "product_reference": "ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "relates_to_product_reference": "Oracle-Linux-6" }, { "category": "default_component_of", "full_product_name": { "name": "ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch as a component of Oracle Linux 6", "product_id": "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch" }, "product_reference": "ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "relates_to_product_reference": "Oracle-Linux-6" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2020-1740", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-377", "name": "Insecure Temporary File" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes \"ansible-vault edit\", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.", "title": "Vulnerability description" }, { "category": "general", "text": "The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.", "title": "CVSS score applicability" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://cve.tuxcare.com/els/cve/CVE-2020-1740" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1740", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1740" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67798", "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67798" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html", "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/", "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/", "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/", "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950", "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950" } ], "release_date": "2020-03-16T16:15:00Z", "remediations": [ { "category": "no_fix_planned", "details": "Ignored due to low severity", "product_ids": [ "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch" ] } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v2": { "accessComplexity": "MEDIUM", "accessVector": "LOCAL", "authentication": "NONE", "availabilityImpact": "NONE", "baseScore": 1.9, "baseSeverity": "LOW", "confidentialityImpact": "PARTIAL", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "vectorString": "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N", "version": "2.0" }, "cvss_v3": { "attackComplexity": "HIGH", "attackVector": "LOCAL", "availabilityImpact": "NONE", "baseScore": 4.7, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-0:2.6.20-1.el6.tuxcare.els1.noarch", "Oracle-Linux-6:ansible-doc-2.6.20-1.el6.noarch" ] } ], "threats": [ { "category": "impact", "details": "Moderate" } ] } ] }