CVE-2025-2877

Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Mar 28, 2025
Updated: Mar 20, 2026
Reserved: Mar 27, 2025

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Description

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible. In configurations where verbosity is set to "debug", inventory passwords are exposed in plain text when starting a rulebook activation. This issue exists for any "debug" action in a rulebook and also affects Event Streams.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-1295 Debug Messages Revealing Unnecessary Information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ansible-rulebook	before 1.1.6Affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:1.0.8-2.el8ap and laterNot affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Red Hat	0:1.0.8-2.el9ap and laterNot affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:1.1.4-2.el8ap and laterNot affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9Red Hat	0:1.1.4-2.el9ap and laterNot affected

References

RHSA-2025:3636vendor-advisory
RHSA-2025:3637vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2877vdb-entry
RHBZ#2355540issue-tracking
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-rulebook/pull/767

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