CVE-2020-1753: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only; version 32 only
• Red Hat Ansible Engine: before 2.7.18 (fixed in 2.7.18); 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: up to and including 3.3.4; 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 2020-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.