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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-1739: ansible Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-1739: ansible Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/12/2020
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/23/2020
Modified
04/25/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ansible

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