CVE-2020-1753

MEDIUM

Ansible Engine <2.7.17, <2.8.11, <2.9.7 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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
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