CVE-2019-3869

HIGH

Ansible Tower < 3.3.5 - Sensitive Information Exposure via Environment Variables

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3869

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 55.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-214 CWE-200
Status published
Products (1)
redhat/ansible_tower < 3.3.5
Published Mar 28, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026