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CVE-2018-16859
Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for 'become'…
Medium4.2EPSS 0.54%
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- Updated
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- redhat
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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.2.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-v735-2pp6-h86r (opens in a new tab)
References (10)
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3770 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3771 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 106004 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3773 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3772 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1125 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1635 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v735-2pp6-h86r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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