A flaw was found in ansible. Credentials, such as secrets, are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Versions before ansible 2.9.18 are affected.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3695-1 ansible security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8f4m-hccc-8qph Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

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History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00027}

epss

{'score': 0.00026}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.571Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20191

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-26T21:15:08.193

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:06.130

Link: CVE-2021-20191

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-01-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20191 - Bugzilla

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