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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-ANSIBLE-4426396
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed16 Nov 2018
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Introduced: 16 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible package and not the ansible package as distributed by RHEL.

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.