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-2309901
  • published5 Dec 2021
  • disclosed5 Dec 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Dec 2021

CVE-2014-4660  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (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 via the sources.list file that is used to construct filenames containing user and password fields. This might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information by leveraging existence of a file that uses the deb http://user:pass@server:port/ format.

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