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Debian: CVE-2020-1739: ansible -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-1739: ansible -- security update

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/12/2020
Created
05/08/2020
Added
05/07/2020
Modified
08/20/2021

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-ansible

References

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