CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-20191
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ansible 2.10.7, 2.8.19, 2.8.19rc1.
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. Versions before ansible 2.9.18 are affected.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-532
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- oracle:virtualization
- redhat:ansible
- redhat:ansible_tower
- redhat:cisco_nx-os_collection
- redhat:community_general_collection
- redhat:community_network_collection
- redhat:docker_community_collection
- redhat:google_cloud_platform_ansible_collection
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-8f4m-hccc-8qph | PyPI | ansible | >=2.9.0a1 <2.9.18rc1 | 2.9.18rc1 |
| GHSA-8f4m-hccc-8qph | PyPI | ansible | <2.8.19rc1 | 2.8.19rc1 |
| GHSA-8f4m-hccc-8qph | PyPI | ansible | >=2.10.0a1 <2.10.7 | 2.10.7 |
| PYSEC-2021-124 | PyPI | ansible | <2.8.19 >=2.9.0 <2.9.18 >=2.10.0 <2.10.7 | 2.8.19, 2.9.18, 2.10.7 |