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 vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3IMV3XEIUXL6S4KPLYYM4TVJQ2VNEP2/
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