Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [,1.5.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1925002
  • published24 Nov 2021
  • disclosed20 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2020

CVE-2014-4658  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 1.5.5 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The vault subsystem does not set the umask before creation or modification of a vault file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information by reading a file.

CVSS Scores

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