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Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 1, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 6, 2024

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.9.0, < 2.9.18
< 2.8.19
>= 2.10.0, < 2.10.7

Patched versions

2.9.18
2.8.19
2.10.7

Description

A flaw was found in ansible. Credentials, such as secrets, are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 26, 2021
Reviewed Jun 1, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 1, 2021
Last updated Jan 6, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-20191

GHSA ID

GHSA-8f4m-hccc-8qph

Source code

No known source code
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