CVE-2021-20228
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-29 15:34
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine 2.9.18, where sensitive info is not masked by default and is not protected by the no_log feature when using the sub-option feature of the basic.py module. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925002Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73487Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aansible
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