Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.0036, the 29th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 7 Apr 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

• GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj
• OSV: GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1740
• github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67798
• github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/28f9fbdb5e281976e33f443193047068afb97a9b
• github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/2a563514f070a0a8ba64aebf6bce21194be96c73
• github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/685a4b6d3ff72186d2b4ffce73172a5446a71ccc
• github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ef32a5bf96a89107986375516285253c1380d7ef
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1740
• github.com/advisories/GHSA-vcg8-98q8-g7mj
• github.com/ansible/ansible
• github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-12.yaml
• lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
• lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.