ansible-engine up to 2.8.14/2.9.12 dnf Module signature verification

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A vulnerability was found in ansible-engine up to 2.8.14/2.9.12 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component dnf Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-347. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 09/23/2020 as Bug 1869154 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-14365 since 06/17/2020. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.8.15 or 2.9.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Class: Weak authentication
CWE: CWE-347
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: ansible-engine 2.8.15/2.9.13

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06/17/2020 CVE assigned
09/23/2020 +98 days Advisory disclosed
09/23/2020 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/23/2020 +0 days VulDB last update

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Advisory: Bug 1869154
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2020-14365 (🔒)

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Created: 09/23/2020 05:42 PM
Changes: (3) vulnerability_cwe source_cve_assigned source_cve_nvd_summary
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