CVE-2020-1739
LOW3.9EPSS 0.05%Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Ansible
Published: 4/7/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.8.9-r0
- Alpine/ansible-basefrom 0, < 2.9.7-r0
- Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.9.7+dfsg-1
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.7.17
- PyPI/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.7.17, >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.9, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (22)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-923p-fr2c-g5m2
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1739
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-1739
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-1739
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1a89d4f059c21a818306a39ada7f5284ae125237
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/6c74a298702c8bb5532b9600073312e08f39680f
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/c6c4fbf4a1fdea1e10ba94462a60c413990a16a4
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68911
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68912
- WEBhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68913
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-11.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U3IMV3XEIUXL6S4KPLYYM4TVJQ2VNEP2
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U3IMV3XEIUXL6S4KPLYYM4TVJQ2VNEP2/
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950