Information Exposure Affecting ansible package, versions [,2.6.19) [2.7.0, 2.7.13) [2.8.0, 2.8.4)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.22% (60th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
6.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-535490
  • published 24 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 24 Jul 2019
  • credit Paul Rubin

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.6.19, 2.7.13, 2.8.4 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It prompted passwords by expanding them from templates as they could contain special characters. Passwords should be wrapped to prevent templates trigger and exposing them.