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CVE-2020-25635

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-25635 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Red Hat Ansible Base when utilizing the aws_ssm connection plugin. The flaw stems from a lack of garbage collection after playbook execution, leaving sensitive data files exposed in the S3 bucket. This local attack vector with low complexity could lead to high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:2.10.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.10.1
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-f556-49jc-4rvcmedium

Ansible does not collect garbage after playbook run

Oct 31, 2025
redhatCVE-2020-25635Moderate

Collections: aws_ssm connection plugin should garbage collect the s3 bucket after the file transfers

Sep 4, 2020

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/222
Third Party Advisory