CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16859

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2018-11-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-11-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-532

Description

Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for 'become' passwords to appear in EventLogs in plaintext. A local user with administrator privileges on the machine can view these logs and discover the plaintext password. Ansible Engine 2.8 and older are believed to be vulnerable.

Affected configurations

• redhat ansible engine (< 2.5.13) • redhat ansible engine (>= 2.6.0 < 2.6.10) • redhat ansible engine (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.4) • redhat ansible engine (>= 2.7.5 <= 2.8)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

References