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CVE-2018-16859

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.

Published

2018-11-29T18:29:00.537

Last Modified

2024-11-21T03:53:27.863

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 4.2 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-532
Type: Primary
CWE-532

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	redhat	ansible_engine	< 2.5.13	Yes
Application	redhat	ansible_engine	< 2.6.10	Yes
Application	redhat	ansible_engine	< 2.7.4	Yes
Application	redhat	ansible_engine	≤ 2.8	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)