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CVE-2020-1739

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 argum

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.

LOW · CVSS 3.9 EPSS 0.00046
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Affected Products & Versions

11
redhat ansible>= 2.8.0 and <= 2.8.8
redhat ansible>= 2.9.0 and <= 2.9.5
redhat ansible tower>= 3.4.0 and <= 3.4.5
redhat ansible tower>= 3.5.0 and <= 3.5.5
redhat ansible tower>= 3.6.0 and <= 3.6.3

Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI ansible LOW fixed in 2.7.17

Scoring & Timeline

3.9
LOW · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD12 Mar 2020 · 06:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2025:15605-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:14244-1
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