| Name | CVE-2021-20228 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine 2.9.18, where sensitive info is not masked by default and is not protected by the no_log feature when using the sub-option feature of the basic.py module. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4950-1 |
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 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.3.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 7.7.0+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| sid | 9.4.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ansible | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| ansible | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| ansible | source | buster | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | | DSA-4950-1 | |
| ansible | source | (unstable) | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1 | | | |
| ansible-base | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - ansible <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925002
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/73487