Ansible Engine up to 2.7.16/2.8.10/2.9.6 Kubernetes information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine up to 2.7.16/2.8.10/2.9.6 and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Kubernetes Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2020-1753. The attack requires local access. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Ansible Engine up to 2.7.16/2.8.10/2.9.6 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component Kubernetes Handler. 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. CVE summarizes:

A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.11 and all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7, when managing kubernetes using the k8s module. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to kubectl from the command line, not using an environment variable or an input configuration file. This will disclose passwords and tokens from process list and no_log directive from debug module would not have any effect making these secrets being disclosed on stdout and log files.

The weakness was presented 03/16/2020 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-1753 since 11/27/2019. The attack needs to be approached locally. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Upgrading to version 2.7.17, 2.8.11 or 2.9.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-151707, VDB-151706, VDB-151705 and VDB-151704 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Ansible Engine

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
• 2.8.9
• 2.8.10
• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.9.5
• 2.9.6

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