Information disclosure in Red Hat Ansible Tower

1) Cleartext storage of sensitive information

EUVDB-ID: #VU22998

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14890

CWE-ID: CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the application return a list of all users and their passwords in clear text via the "/api/v2/config" URL when applying the Ansible Tower license. A remote low privileged attacker can gain access to passwords of all users of the application.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Ansible Tower: 3.6.0

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14890
http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3958

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.