CVE-2020-1739

LOW

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

Title source: llm

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)

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3IMV3XEIUXL6S4KPLYYM4TVJQ2VNEP2/

Scores

CVSS v3 3.9

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 13.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Affected Products (10)

redhat/ansible < 2.7.16

redhat/ansible_tower < 3.3.4

redhat/cloudforms_management_engine

redhat/openstack

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

pypi/ansible < 2.7.17PyPI

Timeline

Published Mar 12, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026