A flaw was found in Ansible in the amazon.aws collection when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module.…

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible in the amazon.aws collection when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module. This flaw allows an attacker to take advantage of this issue as the module is handling the parameter insecurely, leading to the password leaking in the logs.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.90% · top 40% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• CWE-233 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-233 and its CVEs

Affected products

• ansible, ansible community.aws, ansible amazon.aws

  • affected ansible from 2.5.0 before 2.10
  • affected ansible community.aws before 2.0.0
  • affected ansible amazon.aws from 2.1.0 before 5.1.0

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• PyPIansibleGHSA-cpx3-93w7-457x (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1199 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html (opens in a new tab)x_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-cpx3-93w7-457x (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 13 Feb 2025, 16:32 UTC.