cve-2021-20191
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-26 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1916813Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
Impacted products
n/aansible
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