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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2019-3869 json

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variab…

published 2019-03-28 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-13482

cvss
7.2
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • redhat ansible_tower 3.3.5, 3.4.3
  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
  • cfme-gemset cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
  • ansible-tower cloudforms managementengine 5.10 3.4.3-1.el7at
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
  • ansible-tower-ui cloudforms managementengine 5.10 3.4.3-1.el7at
  • ansible-tower-setup cloudforms managementengine 5.10 3.4.3-1.el7at
  • ansible-tower-server cloudforms managementengine 5.10 3.4.3-1.el7at
  • cfme-appliance-tools cloudforms managementengine 5.10 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:0796

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-2019-3869 updated cvss 7.2

Tower: credentials leaked through environment variables

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.10 cfme 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf, ansible-tower 3.4.3-1.el7at, cfme-gemset 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf, ansible-tower-ui 3.4.3-1.el7at, cfme-appliance 5.10.3.3-1.el7cf, ansible-tower-setup 3.4.3-1.el7at, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0796
  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3 for RHEL 7 Server ansible-tower-33/ansible-tower 3.3.5-3
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2019:0884
  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7 Server ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower 3.4.3-4, ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-messaging 3.7.4-10, ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached 1.4.15-18
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2019:0885

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Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Tower

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-214 Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.