CVE-2021-20178

MEDIUM

Redhat Ansible < 2.9.18 - Log Information Exposure

Title source: rule

Description

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HIU7QZUV73U6ZQ65VJWSFBTCALVXLH55/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUQ2QKAQA5OW2TY3ACZZMFIAJ2EQTG37/

Mailing List mailing-list

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914774

Various Sources

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes%2C

View Writeup ZIP pw:eip

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635%2C

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 7.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-532

Status published

Products (5)

fedoraproject/fedora 32

fedoraproject/fedora 33

pypi/ansible 0 - 2.9.18PyPI

redhat/ansible < 2.9.18

redhat/ansible_tower 3.0

Published May 26, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026