Ansible is an IT automation system that handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. 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 when Ansible receives an unexpected response from set_options. The highest threat from this vulnerability is confidentiality.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3620
• ansible/ansible@fe28767
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975767
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2022-164.yaml
• 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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3620
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html