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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 Sep 10, 2024

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.9.0a1, < 2.9.18rc1
< 2.8.19rc1
>= 2.10.0a1, < 2.10.7

Patched versions

2.9.18rc1
2.8.19rc1
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 Sep 10, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-20191

GHSA ID

GHSA-8f4m-hccc-8qph

Source code

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