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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2020-14332 json

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File and Improper Output Neutralization for Logs in ansible

published 2020-09-11 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-j667-c2hm-f2wp , PYSEC-2020-4 , EUVD-2020-0026

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when using module_args. Tasks executed with check mode (--check-mode) do not properly neutralize sensitive data exposed in the event data. This flaw allows unauthorized users to read this data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ansible 2.8.14, 2.9.12, 2.10.1rc2
  • redhat ansible_engine 2.8.14, 2.9.12
  • ansible Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.9.13+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14332

  • ansible ansible engine 2.8 2.8.15-1.el7ae
  • ansible ansible engine 2.8 2.8.15-1.el8ae

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:3600

  • ansible openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Proxy Module 4.3, Manager Client Tools 15 2.9.27-150000.1.17.2
  • grafana Manager Client Tools 15 9.5.18-150000.1.63.2
  • spacecmd openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.27-150000.3.116.2
  • mgr-daemon Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.9-150000.1.47.2
  • spacewalk-koan Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.6-150000.3.33.2
  • dracut-saltboot openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Client Tools for SLE Micro 5, Manager Client Tools 15 0.1.1710765237.46af599-150000.1.53.2
  • POS_Image-JeOS7 openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Client Tools 15 0.1.1710765237.46af599-150000.1.21.2
  • uyuni-common-libs Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.10-150000.1.39.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1SUSE-SU-2020:3309-1

  • ansible-14 openSUSE Tumbleweed 14.6.0-1.1
  • ansible-13 openSUSE Tumbleweed 13.7.0-1.1
  • ansible-12 openSUSE Tumbleweed 12.2.0-1.1
  • ansible-11 openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.11.0-1.1
  • ansible-10 openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.6.0-1.1
  • ansible-9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.8.0-1.1
  • ansible Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 2.9.21-bp153.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12447-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10944-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15605-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14244-1

  • ansible Alpine 3.10 2.8.15-r0
  • ansible Alpine 3.12, Alpine 3.11 2.9.13-r0
  • ansible-base Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.13 2.9.13-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-14332

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-14332 updated cvss 5.5

Ansible: module_args does not censor properly in --check mode

  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) ansible
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 Server ansible 2.8.15-1.el7ae Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 ansible 2.8.15-1.el8ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3600
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ansible Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) ansible Red Hat Storage 3 ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ansible
<2.8.14
>=2.9.0a1, <2.9.12
>=2.10.0a1, <2.10.1rc2
>=2.8.0, <2.8.14
>=2.9.0, <2.9.12
2.8.14
2.9.12
2.10.1rc2

Affected products

  • Red Hat Ansible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.