MEDIUM 5.5

GHSA-fh5v-5f35-2rv2

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible

Introduced in: 2.8.0a1 Fixed in: 2.8.19

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.8.19'

PyPI / ansible

Introduced in: 2.9.0b1 Fixed in: 2.9.18

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.9.18'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20180 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73242 [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73243 [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915808 [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.19/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/v2.7.18/lib/ansible/modules/source_control [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/v2.8.0a1/lib/ansible/modules/source_control [WEB]