Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting zhmc-ansible-modules package, versions [0,]
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- published1 Dec 2024
- disclosed29 Nov 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 29 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-53979 (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.