Voicing my concerns with passlib (security) and its larger adoption by Ansible

Hello,

While doing Ansible maintenance work, I discovered that the passlib library used by Ansible (currently only for Mac users) has not seen any release in 3 years.

I am a bit concerned about how interesting it would be as an attack target (especially since it encrypts passwords), e.g. Pypi account take-over.

I have opened various issues:

While doing so, I have learned that passlib is actually likely to be used for all Ansible users soon, not just Mac ones, which makes an account take-over an even more interesting goal.

The issue has been closed, but I feel this should be taken care of (I have suggested ideas), so I’m voicing my concerns here.

An account take-over of passlib (I don’t know if it has 2FA enabled, for instance) would have potentially massive impact on Ansible users.

If anyone has interesting ideas, let me know!

Thibaut