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CVE-2018-16859

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-11-29

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00101