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PYSEC-2020-200

Details

The vault subsystem in Ansible before 1.5.5 does not set the umask before creation or modification of a vault file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information by reading a file.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.5.5

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=1.5.5'

References

https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68233 [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md [WEB]