Cleartext storage of sensitive information in Ansible Tower - CVE-2019-14890
Published: November 26, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22998
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14890
CWE-ID: CWE-312
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Ansible Tower
How to mitigate CVE-2019-14890
Install updates from vendor's website.
Ansible Tower - update to 3.6.1