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
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-560128
  • published12 Mar 2020
  • disclosed12 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-1739  (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. When a password is set with the argument password of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.

CVSS Scores

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