Red Hat Ansible up to 2.7.16/2.8.8/2.9.5 svn Command Line information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Red Hat Ansible up to 2.7.16/2.8.8/2.9.5. Impacted is an unknown function of the component svn Command Line. This manipulation causes information disclosure. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-1739. The attack can only be executed locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Ansible up to 2.7.16/2.8.8/2.9.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component svn Command Line. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was shared 03/12/2020 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-1739 since 11/27/2019. Attacking locally is a requirement. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232217 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Ansible vulnerabilities (USN-7330-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232217). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• Ansible

Version

• 2.7.0
• 2.7.1
• 2.7.2
• 2.7.3
• 2.7.4
• 2.7.5
• 2.7.6
• 2.7.7
• 2.7.8
• 2.7.9
• 2.7.10
• 2.7.11
• 2.7.12
• 2.7.13
• 2.7.14
• 2.7.15
• 2.7.16
• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.9.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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