CVE-2018-16859

Advisory

Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for 'become' passwords to appear in EventLogs in plaintext. A local user with administrator privileges on the machine can view these logs and discover the plaintext password.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16859
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49142
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16859
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106004
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3772
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3771
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3770
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16859