Improper Output Neutralization for Logs Affecting ansible-core package, versions [,2.14.14)[2.15.0,2.15.9)[2.16.0,2.16.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLECORE-6179512
  • published19 Jan 2024
  • disclosed18 Jan 2024
  • creditsivel

Introduced: 18 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-0690  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-117  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible-core to version 2.14.14, 2.15.9, 2.16.3 or higher.

Overview

ansible-core is an a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers easy.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Output Neutralization for Logs due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios. This could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information, such as decrypted secret values from the output of certain tasks, like loop items.

CVSS Scores

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