Insufficiently Protected Credentials 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-1925011
  • published23 Nov 2021
  • disclosed20 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2020

CVE-2014-4659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (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 Insufficiently Protected Credentials. It sets 0644 permissions for sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by reading a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.

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