CVE-2020-1753

NameCVE-2020-1753
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4950-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ansible (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u3fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2fixed
bullseye2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie10.5.0+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ansiblesourcejessie(not affected)
ansiblesourcestretch(not affected)
ansiblesourcebuster2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1DSA-4950-1
ansiblesource(unstable)2.9.16+dfsg-1

Notes

[stretch] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - ansible <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811008
https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes/pull/51
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/71971
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/3728530c9a21c0992047d32cb02518d1b076e23d (v2.9.14rc1)
Followup fix: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/7529d31ba9042843ca4364459a744381728b7b4f (v2.9.15rc1)
Fixing commit only introduces a warning about disclosure when using certain
options.

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