Credential Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [2.7.0, 2.7.17)[2.8.0 , 2.8.11)[2.9.0, 2.9.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-568827
  • published11 May 2020
  • disclosed11 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2020

CVE-2020-10685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (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 Credential Exposure. When using modules which decrypt vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the secrets unencrypted. On Operating Systems in which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp remains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running.

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