SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-86hp-cj9j-33vv)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412481

Description

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

- A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x
versions prior to 2.8.11 and all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7, when managing kubernetes using the
k8s module. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to kubectl from the command line,
not using an environment variable or an input configuration file. This will disclose passwords and tokens
from process list and no_log directive from debug module would not have any effect making these secrets
being disclosed on stdout and log files. (CVE-2020-1753)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-86hp-cj9j-33vv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412481

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-2020-1753

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: 6.8

Threat Score: 5.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/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: 4/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1753

IAVB: 2020-B-0016-S

cwe: CWE-200, CWE-532