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Ansible-collection-community-general: ansible-collection-community-general: keycloak user module leaks credentials in verbose output

A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs could retrieve these secrets and potentially compromise Keycloak accounts or administrative access.

CWE-200CWE-532Dec 4, 2025
CVSS5.5v3.1EPSS0.132%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files

An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.

CWE-22CWE-36Dec 18, 2023
CVSS6.3v3.1EPSS0.859%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Ansible leaks password to logs

A flaw was found in Ansible in the amazon.aws collection when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module. This flaw allows an attacker to take advantage of this issue as the module is handling the parameter insecurely, leading to the password leaking in the logs.

CWE-233Oct 28, 2022
CVSS7.5v3.1EPSS0.732%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CWE-532Mar 16, 2022
CVSS5.5v3.1EPSS0.314%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Ansible discloses sensitive information in traceback error message

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information such as the Ansible user credentials is disclosed by default in the traceback error message. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CWE-209Mar 3, 2022
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.39%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Improper Input Validation and Command Injection in Ansible

A flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection. This issue can occur through facts used in the template if the user is trying to put templates in multi-line YAML strings and the facts being handled do not routinely include special template characters. This flaw allows attackers to perform command injection, which discloses sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

CWE-20CWE-77CWE-94Sep 22, 2021
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.897%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Insufficiently random values in Ansible

A flaw was found in the use of insufficiently random values in Ansible. Two random password lookups of the same length generate the equal value as the template caching action for the same file since no re-evaluation happens. The highest threat from this vulnerability would be that all passwords are exposed at once for the file. This flaw affects Ansible Engine versions before 2.9.6.

CWE-330May 27, 2021
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.439%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CWE-532May 26, 2021
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.34%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File in ansible

A flaw was found in ansible. Credentials, such as secrets, are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Versions before ansible 2.9.18 are affected.

CWE-532May 26, 2021
CVSS5.5v3.1EPSS0.349%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Ansible Exposes Sensitive Information

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine 2.9.18, where sensitive info is not masked by default and is not protected by the no_log feature when using the sub-option feature of the basic.py module. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CWE-200CWE-522Apr 29, 2021
CVSS-v4.0EPSS2.06%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Ansible does not collect garbage after playbook run

A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as garbage collector is not happening after playbook run is completed. Files would remain in the bucket exposing the data. This issue affects directly data confidentiality.

CWE-212Oct 5, 2020
CVSS5.0v3.1EPSS0.319%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in ansible

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability

CWE-347Sep 23, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.233%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File and Improper Output Neutralization for Logs in ansible

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when using module_args. Tasks executed with check mode (--check-mode) do not properly neutralize sensitive data exposed in the event data. This flaw allows unauthorized users to read this data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CWE-117CWE-532Sep 11, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.41%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Improper Output Neutralization and Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output for Logs in ansible

An Improper Output Neutralization for Logs flaw was found in Ansible when using the uri module, where sensitive data is exposed to content and json output. This flaw allows an attacker to access the logs or outputs of performed tasks to read keys used in playbooks from other users within the uri module. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.573%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

OS Command Injection and Improper Input Validation in ansible

A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules. When setting the name for the zone on the Solaris host, the zone name is checked by listing the process with the 'ps' bare command on the remote machine. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting the name of the zone and executing arbitrary commands in the remote host. Ansible Engine 2.7.15, 2.8.7, and 2.9.2 as well as previous versions are affected.

CWE-20CWE-78Aug 25, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.421%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible

An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.

CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.255%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in ansible

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used. The issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality.

CWE-200May 12, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.409%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory i

CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.379%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Path Traversal in Ansible

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

CWE-22Apr 30, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.361%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere, Improper Input Validation, and External Control of File Name or Path in Ansible

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS command injections. This could result in a loss of confidentiality of the system among other issues.

CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.742%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Code Injection, Race Condition, and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Ansible

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.347%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Argument Injection in Ansible

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified. If a previous task is executed with a malicious user, the module sent can be selected by the attacker using the ansible facts file. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

CWE-88Mar 16, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.384%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to

CWE-200CWE-377Mar 16, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.377%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Path Traversal in Ansible

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

CWE-22Mar 16, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.492%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Ansible

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when a file is moved using atomic_move primitive as the file mode cannot be specified. This sets the destination files world-readable if the destination file does not exist and if the file exists, the file could be changed to have less restrictive permissions before the move. This could lead to the disclosure of sensitive data. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

CWE-732Mar 16, 2020
CVSS-v4.0EPSS0.405%PoCs0SignalsNot listed in CISA KEVNo known ransomware useNo Nuclei templatesSTIX