Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting ansible package, versions [,1.5.5)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-1925011
- published 23 Nov 2021
- disclosed 20 Feb 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 20 Feb 2020
CVE-2014-4659 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 Insufficiently Protected Credentials. It sets 0644 permissions for sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by reading a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.