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Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files and Improper Output Neutralization for Logs in Ansible

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 26, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.7.0, <= 2.7.15
>= 2.8.0, <= 2.8.7
>= 2.9.0, <= 2.9.1

Patched versions

2.7.16
2.8.8
2.9.2

Description

Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag no_log set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors. This would discloses and collects any sensitive data.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 2, 2020
Reviewed Feb 25, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 26, 2020
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-14864

GHSA ID

GHSA-3m93-m4q6-mc6v

Source code

No known source code
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