CVE-2020-1739: Information Exposure

March 12, 2020 (updated August 7, 2021)

A flaw was found in Ansible 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.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1739
github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1739

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