CVE-2018-16859
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.2epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 56% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Red Hat · ansibleReferences
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004