Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.5.14)[2.6.0, 2.6.11)[2.7.0, 2.7.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-72696
  • published18 Dec 2018
  • disclosed7 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-16876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.5.14, 2.6.11, 2.7.5 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. When a retry task run with -vvv fails, it would log the raw return code, stdout and stderr from ssh which could have contained sensitive data.

CVSS Scores

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