CVE-2021-20180 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

What is CVE-2021-20180?

CVE-2021-20180 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ansible, published on 16 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-20180?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Ansible.

How do I fix CVE-2021-20180?

Upgrade ansible to a fixed version for your release line: 2.8.19 or 2.9.18.

Is CVE-2021-20180 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ansible

• CVE-2014-4657 Ansible Remote Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4966 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4967 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7550 Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-3498 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20180, GHSA-fh5v-5f35-2rv2, PYSEC-2026-618, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20180.