Low
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1739
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-1739
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:38.153940717Z",
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"references": [
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950",
"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67797",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-03-12T18:15:12.337+00:00"
}