Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.8.19) [2.9.0, 2.9.18)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (17th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1070409
- published 7 Feb 2021
- disclosed 7 Feb 2021
- credit Abhijeet Kasurde
Introduced: 7 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-20178 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade ansible
to version 2.8.19, 2.9.18 or higher.
Overview
ansible is a simple IT automation system.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. snmp_facts
leaks user authentication such as authKey
and privKey
. This could lead in disclosing those credentials for every user which has access to the output of playbook execution.