CVE-2020-1740 – ansible

Package

Manager: pip
Name: ansible
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <2.7.17 || >=2.8.0a1 <2.8.11 || >=2.9.0a1 <2.9.7

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00036 pctl0.08966

Details

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Metadata

Created: 2021-04-07T21:47:31Z
Modified: 2024-09-04T20:42:49Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/04/GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj/GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-200", "CWE-377"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj
Finding: F028
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