Ansible up to 1.5.4 insufficiently protected credentials

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A vulnerability was found in Ansible up to 1.5.4. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-4660. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Ansible up to 1.5.4 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Ansible before 1.5.5 constructs filenames containing user and password fields on the basis of deb lines in sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging existence of a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.

The weakness was shared 04/22/2023 as c4b5e46054c74176b2446c82d4df1a2610eddc08. The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-4660 since 06/25/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1552 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.5.5 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch c4b5e46054c74176b2446c82d4df1a2610eddc08 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 68231†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Ansible

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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