replace random with secrets when generating passwords (#85971)

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Sjögren <konstruktoid@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
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Thomas Sjögren
2025-11-20 18:32:32 +01:00
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parent ce84d3157d
commit 6d428ca8f0
3 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
bugfixes:
- password lookup plugin - replace random.SystemRandom() with secrets.SystemRandom() when
generating passwords (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/85956, https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/85971).

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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
description:
- A seed to initialize the random number generator.
- Identical seeds will yield identical passwords.
- Use this for random-but-idempotent password generation.
- B(Note) that a weak seed, one without enough entropy, will not create a sufficiently secure encryption for the password.
type: str
notes:
- A great alternative to the password lookup plugin,
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ EXAMPLES = """
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
random_pod_name: "web-{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null', chars=['ascii_lowercase', 'digits'], length=8) }}"
- name: create random but idempotent password
- name: create idempotent password for use in testing/CI, not recommended for production
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
password: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.password', '/dev/null', seed=inventory_hostname) }}"
"""

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@@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ def random_password(length=DEFAULT_PASSWORD_LENGTH, chars=C.DEFAULT_PASSWORD_CHA
raise AnsibleAssertionError(f'{chars=!r} ({type(chars)}) is not a {type(str)}.')
if seed is None:
random_generator = random.SystemRandom()
random_generator = secrets.SystemRandom()
else:
random_generator = random.Random(seed)
return u''.join(random_generator.choice(chars) for dummy in range(length))