| Name | CVE-2019-10206 |
| Description | ansible-playbook -k and ansible cli tools, all versions 2.8.x before 2.8.4, all 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and all 2.6.x before 2.6.19, prompt passwords by expanding them from templates as they could contain special characters. Passwords should be wrapped to prevent templates trigger and exposing them. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3695-1, DSA-4950-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 933005 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.5.0+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - ansible <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
[jessie] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later, password templating code introduced with 2.0 refactoring, '{{' supported in passwords)
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/59246
2.8.x https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/59552
2.7.x https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/59553
2.6.x https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/59554
When fixing this issue is needed to make the fix complete with
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/63351 to not open
CVE-2019-14856.