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PYSEC-2018-60

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / ansible

Introduced in: 2.7.0 Fixed in: 2.7.4

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.5.13'

References

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142 [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859 [REPORT]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004 [WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773 [ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772 [ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771 [ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770 [ADVISORY]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html [WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html [WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html [WEB]