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CVE-2020-1739
- Severity: low (CVSS 3.9 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31, 32
- Red Hat Ansible: through 2.7.16; from 2.8.0 through 2.8.8; from 2.9.0 through 2.9.5
- Tower: through 3.3.4; from 3.4.0 through 3.4.5; from 3.5.0 through 3.5.5; from 3.6.0 through 3.6.3
- Red Hat CloudForms: 5.0
- OpenStack: 13
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3IMV3XEIUXL6S4KPLYYM4TVJQ2VNEP2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWDK3QUVBULS3Q3PQTGEKUQYPSNOU5M3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QT27K5ZRGDPCH7GT3DRI3LO4IVDVQUB7/
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