| Name | CVE-2020-1746 |
| Description | A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used. The issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data 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) | 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 | (not affected) | | | |
| ansible | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| ansible | source | buster | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | | DSA-4950-1 | |
| ansible | source | (unstable) | 2.9.7+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=1805491
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67866
Fixed by: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/d41e38435b1a9e300d8011ac28f16a5add2db119 (v2.9.7)