Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting zhmc-ansible-modules package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZHMCANSIBLEMODULES-8445278
  • published1 Dec 2024
  • disclosed29 Nov 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Nov 2024

NewCVE-2024-53979  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-312  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

zhmc-ansible-modules is an Ansible modules managing a IBM Z via the HMC Web Services API.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information through the zhmc_partition, zhmc_lpar, zhmc_user, and zhmc_ldap_server_definition modules. An attacker can access sensitive information by exploiting the logging of clear text passwords under certain configurations. This is only exploitable if the log_file module input parameter is used.

References

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1