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Ansible password prompts could expose passwords

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 3, 2024

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.6
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.14
>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.20

Patched versions

2.8.6
2.7.14
2.6.20

Description

A data disclosure flaw was found in ansible. Password prompts in ansible-playbook and ansible-cli tools could expose passwords with special characters as they are not properly wrapped. A password with special characters is exposed starting with the first of these special characters. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

This CVE exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 26, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Oct 19, 2023
Last updated Sep 3, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.140%
(51st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-14856

GHSA ID

GHSA-6fq2-x65v-v9h7

Source code

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