CVE-2021-3620

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is disclosed by default in the traceback error message. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2022-03-03

Last modified

2025-02-13

Weaknesses

CWE-209

Affected products

• Ansible Automation Platform Early Access (Redhat)
• Ansible Engine (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian (Redhat)
• Openstack (Redhat)
• Virtualization (Redhat)
• Virtualization For Ibm Power Little Endian (Redhat)
• Virtualization Host (Redhat)
• Virtualization Manager (Redhat)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975767
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/fe28767970c8ec62aabe493c46b53a5de1e5fac0
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html