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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-7550 json

Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability

published 2017-11-21 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-588w-w6mv-3cw5 , PYSEC-2017-4 , EUVD-2017-0004

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params" argument, and noting this in the module documentation.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ansible 2.3.3.0, 2.4.1.0
  • redhat ansible 2.3.3, 2.4.1
  • ansible Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.4.2.0+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7550

  • ansible RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 2.4.0.0-5.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2966

  • ansible openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Proxy Module 4.3, Manager Client Tools 15 2.9.27-150000.1.17.2
  • grafana Manager Client Tools 15 9.5.18-150000.1.63.2
  • spacecmd openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.27-150000.3.116.2
  • mgr-daemon Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.9-150000.1.47.2
  • spacewalk-koan Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.6-150000.3.33.2
  • dracut-saltboot openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Client Tools for SLE Micro 5, Manager Client Tools 15 0.1.1710765237.46af599-150000.1.53.2
  • POS_Image-JeOS7 openSUSE Leap 15.5, Manager Client Tools 15 0.1.1710765237.46af599-150000.1.21.2
  • uyuni-common-libs Manager Client Tools 15 4.3.10-150000.1.39.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1SUSE-SU-2024:1427-1SUSE-SU-2020:3309-1SUSE-SU-2018:0605-1

  • ansible-14 openSUSE Tumbleweed 14.6.0-1.1
  • ansible-13 openSUSE Tumbleweed 13.7.0-1.1
  • ansible-12 openSUSE Tumbleweed 12.2.0-1.1
  • ansible-11 openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.11.0-1.1
  • ansible-10 openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.6.0-1.1
  • ansible-9 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.8.0-1.1
  • ansible Package Hub 12 2.4.1.0-6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12447-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10944-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15605-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14244-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7550 updated cvss 8.5

ansible: jenkins_plugin module exposes passwords in remote host logs

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) ansible Red Hat Storage 3 ansible Red Hat Storage Console 2 ansible
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer 1 ansible
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras ansible 2.4.0.0-5.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2966
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ansible
>=2.4.0.0, <2.4.1.0
>=2.3.0.0, <2.3.3.0
2.4.1.0
2.3.3.0

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. ansible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

Sources

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