Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [0, 2.8.20)[2.9.0,2.9.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1086591
  • published18 Mar 2021
  • disclosed16 Mar 2021
  • creditFelix Fontein, Chen Zhi, John Barker

Introduced: 16 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-3447  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.8.20, 2.9.20 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In several modules parameters containing credentials are being logged in plain-text on managed nodes, as well as being made visible on the controller node when run in verbose mode. These parameters were not protected by the no_log feature. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials, provided they have access to the log files containing them.

CVSS Base Scores

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