CVE-2020-1739

LOW
3.9
CVSS Score
Published: March 12, 2020 at 05:47 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:02 AM UTC
6 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraOpenStack

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Severity
LOW3.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 2.7.16v ≤ 2.8.8v ≤ 2.9.52.8.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.8.82.9.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.9.5
v ≤ 3.3.43.4.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.4.53.5.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.5.53.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.6.3

CVSS

3.9LOWredhat
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200

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