Vulnerability CVE-2021-20191


Published: 2021-05-26

Description:
A flaw was found in ansible. Credentials, such as secrets, are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Versions before ansible 2.9.18 are affected.

Type:

CWE-532

(Information Exposure Through Log Files)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Ansible 
Redhat -> Ansible tower 
Redhat -> Cisco nx-os collection 
Redhat -> Community general collection 
Redhat -> Community network collection 
Redhat -> Docker community collection 
Redhat -> Google cloud platform ansible collection 
Oracle -> Virtualization 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1916813

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