# CVE-2020-10782: Information disclosure in Ansible Tower

> Attackers can read sensitive tokens and secrets from Ansible Tower's rsyslog configuration file due to incorrect world-readable permissions.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jun 2020
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8g82-ff8g-pqf2

## What is CVE-2020-10782?

CVE-2020-10782 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 18 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An exposure of sensitive information flaw was found in Ansible version 3.7.0. Sensitive information, such tokens and other secrets could be readable and exposed from the rsyslog configuration file, which has set the wrong world-readable permissions. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This is fixed in Ansible version 3.7.1.

Weakness: CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource), CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions), CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10782?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Redhat Ansible Tower.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-10782?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-10782 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-10782 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Ansible Tower

- [CVE-2018-10884](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10884/): Cross-site request forgery in ansible-tower (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2018-1104](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1104/): Code injection in Ansible Tower (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2019-14890](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14890/): Information disclosure in Tower (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2017-12148](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-12148/): Code injection in Ansible Tower (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2019-19340](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19340/): Misconfiguration in Tower (high 8.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-10782 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-10782 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 18 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Redhat Ansible Tower. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10782/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10782/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10782
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10782
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10782

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10782/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.