CVE-2020-1746
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in ansible
5.0
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.12%
Description
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used. The issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality.
How to fix CVE-2020-1746
To remediate CVE-2020-1746, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.9.7-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.7-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.7+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.8.11 or later
- —upgrade to 2.7.17 or later
Is CVE-2020-1746 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 2.9.7-r0
- from 0, < 2.9.7-r0
- from 0, < 2.9.7+dfsg-1
- >= 2.8.0a1, < 2.8.11
- >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.17, >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.11, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |