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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1070409
  • published7 Feb 2021
  • disclosed7 Feb 2021
  • creditAbhijeet Kasurde

Introduced: 7 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-20178  (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 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. snmp_facts leaks user authentication such as authKey and privKey. This could lead in disclosing those credentials for every user which has access to the output of playbook execution.

CVSS Scores

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