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PYSEC-2020-202

Details

Ansible before 1.5.5 constructs filenames containing user and password fields on the basis of deb lines in sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging existence of a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: c4b5e46054c74176b2446c82d4df1a2610eddc08

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=c4b5e46054c74176b2446c82d4df1a2610eddc08'

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4660 [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/c4b5e46054c74176b2446c82d4df1a2610eddc08 [FIX]
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68231 [WEB]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/19 [WEB]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md [WEB]