CVE-2021-20178
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
information disclosure in ansible
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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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 | — |
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 2.10.7-1 |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.10.7-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.10.7-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.10.7-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.10.7-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.10.7-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | ansible | <2.9.18 | 2.9.18 |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20178
- https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-9
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20178
- https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635
- https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/commit/1d0c5e2ba47724c31a18d7b08b9daf13df8829dc
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914774
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wv5p-gmmv-wh9v
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes%2C
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes,
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2021-106.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUQ2QKAQA5OW2TY3ACZZMFIAJ2EQTG37
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HIU7QZUV73U6ZQ65VJWSFBTCALVXLH55
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUQ2QKAQA5OW2TY3ACZZMFIAJ2EQTG37
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HIU7QZUV73U6ZQ65VJWSFBTCALVXLH55
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HIU7QZUV73U6ZQ65VJWSFBTCALVXLH55/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FUQ2QKAQA5OW2TY3ACZZMFIAJ2EQTG37/
- https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1635,
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20178.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.