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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2019-19341 json

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2, where files in '/var/backup/tower' are left world-readable.

published 2019-12-19 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-8962

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2, where files in '/var/backup/tower' are left world-readable. These files include both the SECRET_KEY and the database backup. Any user with access to the Tower server, and knowledge of when a backup is run, could retrieve every credential stored in Tower. Access to data is the highest threat with this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • redhat ansible_tower 3.6.2

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-2019-19341 updated cvss 5.9

Tower: intermediate files during Tower backup are world-readable

  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5 for RHEL 7 Server ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower 3.5.4-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:4242
  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7 ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower 3.6.2-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:4243
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 ansible-tower, ansible-tower-ui, ansible-tower-setup, ansible-tower-server, ansible-tower-venv-tower, ansible-tower-venv-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

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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

Affected products

  • RedHat Tower

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

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