CVE-2018-16859

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-532 Information Exposure Through Log Files

Publication date:

29/11/2018

Last modified:

03/04/2019

Description

Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for &#39;become&#39; 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.40 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.40

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

2.10

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine::::::::		2.5.13 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine::::::::	2.6.0 (including)	2.6.10 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine::::::::	2.7.0 (including)	2.7.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine::::::::	2.7.5 (including)	2.8 (including)

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CVE-2018-16859

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools