CVSS 3.1
3.9 lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2020-1739
Low (3.9). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ansible 2.7.17, 2.8.11, 2.8.9.
A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 29% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- redhat:ansible
- redhat:ansible_tower
- redhat:cloudforms_management_engine
- redhat:openstack
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-923p-fr2c-g5m2 | PyPI | ansible | <2.7.17 | 2.7.17 |
| GHSA-923p-fr2c-g5m2 | PyPI | ansible | >=2.8.0a1 <2.8.11 | 2.8.11 |
| GHSA-923p-fr2c-g5m2 | PyPI | ansible | >=2.9.0a1 <2.9.7 | 2.9.7 |
| PYSEC-2020-11 | PyPI | ansible | <2.7.17 >=2.8.0 <2.8.9 >=2.9.0 <2.9.6 | 2.7.17, 2.8.9, 2.9.6 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/