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Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.8.0a1, < 2.8.19
>= 2.9.0b1, < 2.9.18

Patched versions

2.8.19
2.9.18

Description

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 16, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 17, 2022
Reviewed Jun 29, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

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-2021-20180

GHSA ID

GHSA-fh5v-5f35-2rv2

Source code

Credits

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