Low severity · published Mar 12, 2020
CVE-2020-1739
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…
3.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Ansible · Redhat
through 2.7.16; 2.8.0 through 2.8.8; 2.9.0 through 2.9.5 · source: NVD
AT
Ansible Tower · Redhat
through 3.3.4; 3.4.0 through 3.4.5; 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; 3.6.0 through 3.6.3 · source: NVD
CM
Cloudforms Management Engine · Redhat
5.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31; 32 · source: NVD
OP
Openstack · Redhat
13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1739
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1739
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3IMV3XEIUXL6S4KPLYYM4TVJQ2VNEP2/
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