Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [,1.5.5)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1925002
  • published 24 Nov 2021
  • disclosed 20 Feb 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 1.5.5 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The vault subsystem does not set the umask before creation or modification of a vault file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information by reading a file.