CVE-2020-1746: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used. The issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Ansible Engine: from 2.7.0, before 2.7.17 (fixed in 2.7.17); from 2.8.0, before 2.8.11 (fixed in 2.8.11); from 2.9.0, before 2.9.7 (fixed in 2.9.7)
• Red Hat Ansible Tower: from 3.4.0, up to and including 3.4.5; from 3.5.0, up to and including 3.5.5; from 3.6.0, up to and including 3.6.3

Published 2020-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.