Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files - CVE-2019-14846

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Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files - CVE-2019-14846

Published: October 8, 2019 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33354
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14846
CWE-ID: CWE-532
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

Ansible, all ansible_engine-2.x versions and ansible_engine-3.x up to ansible_engine-3.5, was logging at the DEBUG level which lead to a disclosure of credentials if a plugin used a library that logged credentials at the DEBUG level. This flaw does not affect Ansible modules, as those are executed in a separate process.


Affected software

ansible (Alpine package)
ansible (Debian package)
ansible-base (Alpine package)
Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools
Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power
Red Hat OpenStack
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Ansible

How to mitigate CVE-2019-14846

Install update from vendor's website.

ansible (Alpine package) - update to 2.6.20-r0
ansible (Debian package) - update to 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1
ansible-base (Alpine package) - update to 2.10.2-r0
Ansible - update to 2.6.20-1.el7ae

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