Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.8.19)[2.9.0, 2.9.18)[2.10.0,2.10.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1070408
  • published7 Feb 2021
  • disclosed7 Feb 2021
  • creditJordan Borean

Introduced: 7 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-20228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.8.19, 2.9.18, 2.10.7 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The return value of a specific module i.e. basic.py of ansible engine is not being masked by default while using the fallback sub-option.The return value may contain sensitive info like secret Or Credentials.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1