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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj)
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419269
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user
executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is
created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method
write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before
recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.
(CVE-2020-1740)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 419269
Version: Revision 1.6
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: 1.9
Temporal Score: 1.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1740
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.7
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.7
Threat Score: 1.9
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-1740