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CVE-2021-3620A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 66% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
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By redhat
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 66% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
ansible
- affected Fixed in Ansible Engine v2.9.27
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-4r65-35qq-ch8j (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975767 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.9/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/fe28767970c8ec62aabe493c46b53a5de1e5fac0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-0006 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4r65-35qq-ch8j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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