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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-r6h7-5pq2-j77h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418537

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A flaw was found in the use of insufficiently random values in Ansible. Two random password lookups of the
 same length generate the equal value as the template caching action for the same file since no re-
 evaluation happens. The highest threat from this vulnerability would be that all passwords are exposed at
 once for the file. This flaw affects Ansible Engine versions before 2.9.6. (CVE-2020-10729)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r6h7-5pq2-j77h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418537

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10729

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Threat Score: 3.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10729

cwe: CWE-330