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% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-560367
  • published16 Mar 2020
  • disclosed16 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-1740  (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 user executes ansible-vault edit, another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely.

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