Exposure of Sensitive Information in Log Files Affecting ansible-core package, versions [,2.14.18rc1)


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-7981515
  • published15 Sept 2024
  • disclosed13 Sept 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-8775  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible-core to version 2.14.18rc1 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 Exposure of Sensitive Information in Log Files when loading variables from Ansible Vault without setting no_log: true, which is the behavior of some tasks, including include_vars. This vulnerability can be exploited during the execution of a playbook.

Note:

This is a similar vulnerability to the previously reported CVE-2024-0690.

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