Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [2.7.0,2.7.17)[2.8.0a1,2.8.11)[2.9.0b1,2.9.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-559099
  • published2 Mar 2020
  • disclosed28 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-1746  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.9.7 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A flaw was found in ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules for Ansbile. This issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field since nothing in the params field is evaluated for sensitive data.

CVSS Base Scores

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