CVE-2020-1753
MEDIUMAnsible Engine <2.7.17, <2.8.11, <2.9.7 - Info Disclosure
Title source: llmDescription
A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.11 and all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7, when managing kubernetes using the k8s module. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to kubectl from the command line, not using an environment variable or an input configuration file. This will disclose passwords and tokens from process list and no_log directive from debug module would not have any effect making these secrets being disclosed on stdout and log files.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1753
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes/pull/51
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
Scores
CVSS v3
5.0
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
15.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-214
CWE-532
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (7)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
30
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
pypi/ansible
2.7.0a1 - 2.7.18PyPI
redhat/ansible_engine
< 2.7.18
redhat/ansible_tower
< 3.3.4
Published
Mar 16, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026