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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.9.7+dfsg-1 |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-1746
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1746
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67866
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/d41e38435b1a9e300d8011ac28f16a5add2db119
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/e6199d768c1c18a4e750ec78d4ded088629baa3f
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/edd1e1723cc937ec9251adf38c1199a00b0bf6d4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1746
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j2h6-73x8-22c4
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-13.yaml
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1746.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.