CVE-2020-25635

MEDIUM5.0EPSS 0.08%

Ansible does not collect garbage after playbook run

Published: 10/31/2025Modified: 10/31/2025

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as garbage collector is not happening after playbook run is completed. Files would remain in the bucket exposing the data. This issue affects directly data confidentiality.

Affected packages (2)

PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.10.1
PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.10.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25635
PATCHhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible
WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25635
WEBhttps://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/222
WEBhttps://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/237#issuecomment-1468591094
WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-220.yaml