CVE-2018-16859
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.2 Medium
- Published
- Nov 29, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2018
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 4.2 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ansibleRed Hat |
|
References
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142
- RHSA-2018:3770vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859
- RHSA-2018:3771vendor-advisory
- 106004vdb-entry
- RHSA-2018:3773vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2018:3772vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1125vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1635vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1858vendor-advisory
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