Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ansible (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ANSIBLE-9844387
- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed25 Jun 2021
Introduced: 25 Jun 2021
CVE-2021-3620 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible package and not the ansible package as distributed by RHEL.
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is disclosed by default in the traceback error message. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975767
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3620
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3871
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3872
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3874
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4703
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4750
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/fe28767970c8ec62aabe493c46b53a5de1e5fac0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html