Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is disclosed by default in the traceback error message. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3620
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is disclosed by default in the traceback error message. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
osv:CVE-2021-3620
Complete source record
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