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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2019-14858 json

Ansible leaks sensitive information to logs when told not to

published 2019-10-14 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h653-95qw-h2mp , PYSEC-2019-171 , EUVD-2019-0005

cvss
7.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Ansible engine 2.x up to 2.8 and Ansible tower 3.x up to 3.5. When a module has an argument_spec with sub parameters marked as no_log, passing an invalid parameter name to the module will cause the task to fail before the no_log options in the sub parameters are processed. As a result, data in the sub parameter fields will not be masked and will be displayed if Ansible is run with increased verbosity and present in the module invocation arguments for the task.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ansible 2.6.20, 2.7.14, 2.8.1, 2.8.6, 2.9.0rc4
  • ansible Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.8.6+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14858

  • ansible openstack 13, ansible engine 2.6 2.6.20-1.el7ae
  • ansible ansible engine 2.8, ansible engine 2 2.8.6-1.el7ae
  • ansible ansible engine 2.8, ansible engine 2 2.8.6-1.el8ae
  • ansible ansible engine 2.7 2.7.14-1.el7ae

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:0756RHSA-2019:3207RHSA-2019:3203RHSA-2019:3202RHSA-2019:3201

  • storm OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.2.3-3.6.1
  • ansible OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 2.9.14-3.15.1
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 6.7.4-4.12.1
  • ardana-mq OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1593618123.678c32b-3.26.1
  • ardana-nova OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1601298847.dd01585-3.42.1
  • crowbar-core OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 5.0+git.1600432272.b3ad722f0-3.44.1
  • python-kombu OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 4.1.0-3.7.1
  • ardana-cinder OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1596129856.263f430-3.43.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:3309-1

  • 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 15 SP1 2.9.6-bp151.3.6.1
  • ansible openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.9.6-lp151.2.7.1

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

  • ansible Alpine 3.12, Alpine 3.11, Alpine 3.10 2.8.6-r0
  • ansible Alpine 3.8 2.6.20-r0
  • ansible Alpine 3.9 2.7.14-r0
  • ansible-base Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.13 2.8.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-14858

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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-2019-14858 updated cvss 5.0

ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not masked in certain failure scenarios

  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 ansible
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ansible
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) ansible
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) ansible Red Hat Satellite 6 ansible
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Storage 3 ansible
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 ansible 2.8.6-1.el7ae Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 ansible 2.8.6-1.el8ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3207
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server ansible 2.6.20-1.el7ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3201
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7 Server ansible 2.7.14-1.el7ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3202
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  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 Server ansible 2.8.6-1.el7ae Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 ansible 2.8.6-1.el8ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3203
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 ansible 2.6.20-1.el7ae Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 for RHEL 7.6 EUS Server ansible 2.6.20-1.el7ae
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:0756
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ansible
>=2.9.0a1, <2.9.0rc4
>=2.8.0a1, <2.8.6
>=2.7.0a1, <2.7.14
>=2.0, <2.6.20
>=2.0, <2.8.1
2.9.0rc4
2.8.6
2.7.14
2.6.20
2.8.1

Affected products

  • Red Hat Ansible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

Sources

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