ALT-PU-2018-2841-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2018-11-29
Modified: 2024-11-21
Modified: 2024-11-21
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.
Severity: MEDIUM (4.4)
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References:
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1125
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1125
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1635
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1635
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1858
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1858
- 106004
- 106004
- RHSA-2018:3770
- RHSA-2018:3770
- RHSA-2018:3771
- RHSA-2018:3771
- RHSA-2018:3772
- RHSA-2018:3772
- RHSA-2018:3773
- RHSA-2018:3773
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142