pysec-2018-60
Vulnerability from pysec
Published
2018-11-29 18:29
Modified
2021-08-25 04:29
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.

Impacted products
Name purl
ansible pkg:pypi/ansible
Aliases


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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "ansible",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/ansible"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.7.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.7.4"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2.7.5"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.8.1"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.5.13"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.6.10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.0",
        "1.1",
        "1.2",
        "1.2.1",
        "1.2.2",
        "1.2.3",
        "1.3.0",
        "1.3.1",
        "1.3.2",
        "1.3.3",
        "1.3.4",
        "1.4",
        "1.4.1",
        "1.4.2",
        "1.4.3",
        "1.4.4",
        "1.4.5",
        "1.5",
        "1.5.1",
        "1.5.2",
        "1.5.3",
        "1.5.4",
        "1.5.5",
        "1.6",
        "1.6.1",
        "1.6.10",
        "1.6.2",
        "1.6.3",
        "1.6.4",
        "1.6.5",
        "1.6.6",
        "1.6.7",
        "1.6.8",
        "1.6.9",
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        "1.7.2",
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        "1.8.1",
        "1.8.2",
        "1.8.3",
        "1.8.4",
        "1.9.0",
        "1.9.0.1",
        "1.9.1",
        "1.9.2",
        "1.9.3",
        "1.9.4",
        "1.9.5",
        "1.9.6",
        "2.0.0",
        "2.0.0.0",
        "2.0.0.1",
        "2.0.0.2",
        "2.0.1.0",
        "2.0.2.0",
        "2.1.0.0",
        "2.1.1.0",
        "2.1.2.0",
        "2.1.3.0",
        "2.1.4.0",
        "2.1.5.0",
        "2.1.6.0",
        "2.2.0.0",
        "2.2.1.0",
        "2.2.2.0",
        "2.2.3.0",
        "2.3.0.0",
        "2.3.1.0",
        "2.3.2.0",
        "2.3.3.0",
        "2.4.0.0",
        "2.4.1.0",
        "2.4.2.0",
        "2.4.3.0",
        "2.4.4.0",
        "2.4.5.0",
        "2.4.6.0",
        "2.5.0",
        "2.5.0a1",
        "2.5.0b1",
        "2.5.0b2",
        "2.5.0rc1",
        "2.5.0rc2",
        "2.5.0rc3",
        "2.5.1",
        "2.5.10",
        "2.5.11",
        "2.5.12",
        "2.5.2",
        "2.5.3",
        "2.5.4",
        "2.5.5",
        "2.5.6",
        "2.5.7",
        "2.5.8",
        "2.5.9",
        "2.6.0",
        "2.6.1",
        "2.6.2",
        "2.6.3",
        "2.6.4",
        "2.6.5",
        "2.6.6",
        "2.6.7",
        "2.6.8",
        "2.6.9",
        "2.7.0",
        "2.7.1",
        "2.7.10",
        "2.7.11",
        "2.7.12",
        "2.7.13",
        "2.7.14",
        "2.7.15",
        "2.7.16",
        "2.7.17",
        "2.7.18",
        "2.7.2",
        "2.7.3",
        "2.7.5",
        "2.7.6",
        "2.7.7",
        "2.7.8",
        "2.7.9",
        "2.8.0",
        "2.8.0a1",
        "2.8.0b1",
        "2.8.0rc1",
        "2.8.0rc2",
        "2.8.0rc3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-16859"
  ],
  "details": "Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for \u0027become\u0027 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.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2018-60",
  "modified": "2021-08-25T04:29:51.914778Z",
  "published": "2018-11-29T18:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html"
    }
  ]
}


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