GHSA-v735-2pp6-h86r
Ansible Logs Passwords If PowerShell ScriptBlock is Enabled
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2018-16859
- Aliases
- PYSEC-2018-60
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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 packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · ansible | introduced 2.7.0a1, fixed 2.7.3 |
| PyPI · ansible | introduced 0, fixed 2.5.12 |
| PyPI · ansible | introduced 2.6.0a1, fixed 2.6.9 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16859 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142 WEB
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/0d746b4198abf84290a093b83cf02b4203d73d9f WEB
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/2f8d3fcf41107efafc14d51ab6e14531ca8f8c87 WEB
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/4d748d34f9392aa469da00a85c8e2d5fe6cec52b WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770 WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771 WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772 WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773 WEB
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859 WEB
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible PACKAGE
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.5.13/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst WEB
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2018-60.yaml WEB
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227102121/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004 WEB
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html WEB
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html WEB
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |