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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' passwords to appear i…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
RedhatAnsible Engine
before 2.5.13
from 2.6.0 before 2.6.10
from 2.7.0 before 2.7.4
from 2.7.5 through 2.8

Weakness classification

CWE-532

References