redhat ansible-engine CVE-2018-16859 is a vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Engine
Published on November 29, 2018

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.

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Weakness Type

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.


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Affected Versions

Red Hat ansible Version 2.8 and older is affected by CVE-2018-16859

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.10%
Percentile
26.58%

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