CVE-2021-3620
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is disclosed by default in the traceback error message. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
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
Arch Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 5.4.0-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 5.4.0-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 5.4.0-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 5.4.0-1 |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3620
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3620
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/fe28767970c8ec62aabe493c46b53a5de1e5fac0
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3871
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3872
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3874
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4703
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4750
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3620
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975767
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4r65-35qq-ch8j
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2022-164.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3620.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.