CVE-2020-1746

Summary

CVECVE-2020-1746
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-12 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used. The issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Engine All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Engine All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-1746 - Remove the params module option from ldap_attr and ldap_etnry by abadger · Pull Request #67866 · ansible/ansible · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4950-1 ansible DEBIAN www.debian.org
1805491 – (CVE-2020-1746) CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and ldap_entry modules CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178744 Debian Security Update for ansible (DSA 4950-1)
  • 356226 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ansible : ALASANSIBLE2-2023-008
  • 500010 Alpine Linux Security Update for ansible
  • 501350 Alpine Linux Security Update for ansible-base
  • 980401 Python (pip) Security Update for ansible (GHSA-j2h6-73x8-22c4)
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