Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202102-9

Severity: Medium
Date : 2021-02-06
CVE-ID : CVE-2021-20178 CVE-2021-20180 CVE-2021-20191
Package : ansible
Type : information disclosure
Remote : No
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1437

Summary

The package ansible before version 2.10.7-1 is vulnerable to
information disclosure.

Resolution

Upgrade to 2.10.7-1.

pacman -Syu “ansible>=2.10.7-1”

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 2.10.7.

Workaround

None.

Description

• CVE-2021-20178 (information disclosure)

A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.10.6 where the ‘authkey’
and ‘privkey’ credentials are disclosed by default and not protected by
no_log feature when using the snmp_facts module. Attackers could take
advantage of this information to steal the SNMP credentials.

• CVE-2021-20180 (information disclosure)

A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.10.6 where credentials
such as secrets are being disclosed in console log by default and not
protected by secured feature when using bitbucket_pipeline_variable
module. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal
bitbucket_pipeline credentials.

• CVE-2021-20191 (information disclosure)

A flaw was found in ansible-collection where credentials such as
secrets are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected
by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take
advantage of this information to steal those credentials.

Impact

A local attacker can access sensitive information like credentials and
keys.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914774
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1621
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/commit/fa2d2d6971d668f82207dd3e265820fdb4b0048d
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915808
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/commit/a3f08377b2000f8e179e361bcfef4afec18ba1e5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1916813
https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.nxos/pull/227
https://github.com/ansible-collections/cisco.nxos/commit/120956963f47502151a358e4a7bc2a87f71813aa
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-20178
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-20180
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-20191