{"answers":{"affected":"7 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 6 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1740 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade ansible to a fixed version for your release line: 2.7.17, 2.8.9, 2.9.6 or 2.8.11.","what":"CVE-2020-1740 is a low-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 16 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-1740 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-1740 is a low-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 16 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1740 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- ansible (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.7.17, 2.8.9, 2.9.6\n- ansible (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.7.17\n- ansible (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.7.17\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.8.0a1; fixed in 2.8.11\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.8.0a1; fixed in 2.8.11\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.9.0a1; fixed in 2.9.7\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.9.0a1; fixed in 2.9.7\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1740/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1740/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-1740","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1740/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-1740","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2020-1740","DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1740","GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj","PYSEC-2020-12","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1740"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ansible Engine","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can read sensitive secrets from temporary files during Ansible Vault editing due to insecure file handling.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"ansible","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"ansible_tower","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"cloudforms_management_engine","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"openstack","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":3.9,"severity":"low","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-200","name":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor"},{"id":"CWE-377","name":"DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File"}],"description":"A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes \"ansible-vault edit\", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible","id":"CVE-2020-1740","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","fedoraproject:fedora","redhat:ansible_tower","redhat:openstack"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2020"},"n_packages":7,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"Misconfiguration in openshift-ansible","id":"CVE-2020-1741"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17","2.8.9","2.9.6"],"introduced":["0","2.8.0","2.9.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"PYSEC-2020-12"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.8.11"],"introduced":["2.8.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.8.11"],"introduced":["2.8.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.9.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.9.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj"}],"prev":{"headline":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Ansible","id":"CVE-2020-1739"},"products":["ansible"],"published":"2020-03-16","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["Red Hat"]},"summary":"Local attackers can read sensitive secrets from temporary files during Ansible Vault editing due to insecure file handling.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1740/"}