PYSEC-2018-60
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2018-16859
- Aliases
- GHSA-v735-2pp6-h86r
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 2.7.0, fixed 2.7.4, introduced 2.7.5, fixed 2.8.1, introduced 0, fixed 2.5.13, introduced 2.6.0, fixed 2.6.10 |
References
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142 WEB
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859 REPORT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004 WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773 ADVISORY
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772 ADVISORY
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771 ADVISORY
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770 ADVISORY
- 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
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v735-2pp6-h86r ADVISORY
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database |