CVE-2020-1739

LOW

Ansible <2.7.16, <2.8.8, <2.9.5 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950

Scores

CVSS v3 3.9
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (10)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 30
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
pypi/ansible 0 - 2.7.17PyPI
redhat/ansible < 2.7.16
redhat/ansible_tower < 3.3.4
redhat/cloudforms_management_engine 5.0
redhat/openstack 13
Published Mar 12, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026