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Ansible password prompts could expose passwords

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.4
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.13
>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.19

Patched versions

2.8.4
2.7.13
2.6.19

Description

ansible-playbook -k and ansible cli tools, all versions 2.8.x before 2.8.4, all 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and all 2.6.x before 2.6.19, prompt passwords by expanding them from templates as they could contain special characters. Passwords should be wrapped to prevent templates trigger and exposing them.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 22, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Oct 7, 2022
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

CVE ID

CVE-2019-10206

GHSA ID

GHSA-cqmr-rcpr-cxh3

Source code

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