PYSEC-2020-210: Medium severity Ansible Ansible Engine vulnerability

Published Mar 16, 2020
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Updated

A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.11 and all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7, when managing kubernetes using the k8s module. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to kubectl from the command line, not using an environment variable or an input configuration file. This will disclose passwords and tokens from process list and nolog directive from debug module would not have any effect making these secrets being disclosed on stdout and log files.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Ansible Ansible Engine>=2.7.0<2.7.17, >=2.8.0<2.8.11, >=2.9.0<2.9.7

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ansible Engine to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.7.17
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ansible Engine to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.8.11
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ansible Engine to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.9.7

Event History

Mar 16, 2020
CVE Published
via OSV·03:15 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·03:15 PM
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