CVE-2020-1739

Publication date 12 March 2020

Last updated 10 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 Ubuntu Pro
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm5 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm5 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.9 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7330-1
Ansible vulnerabilities
5 March 2025