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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2025-2877 json

Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda

published 2025-03-28 19 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-8615

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, 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 flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible. In configurations where verbosity is set to "debug", inventory passwords are exposed in plain text when starting a rulebook activation. This issue exists for any "debug" action in a rulebook and also affects Event Streams.

Patch / fix

  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 0:1.0.8-2.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 0:1.0.8-2.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:1.1.4-2.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:1.1.4-2.el9ap
  • ansible-rulebook ansible automation platform 2.4 1.0.8-2.el8ap
  • ansible-rulebook ansible automation platform 2.4 1.0.8-2.el9ap
  • ansible-rulebook ansible automation platform 2.5 1.1.4-2.el8ap
  • ansible-rulebook ansible automation platform 2.5 1.1.4-2.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:3636RHSA-2025:3637

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-2025-2877 updated cvss 6.5

event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in EDA

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 ansible-rulebook 1.0.8-2.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 ansible-rulebook 1.0.8-2.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:3636
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 ansible-rulebook 1.1.4-2.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 ansible-rulebook 1.1.4-2.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:3637
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 automation-controller 4.5.21-1.el8ap, automation-controller-ui 4.5.21-1.el8ap, automation-controller-cli 4.5.21-1.el8ap, automation-controller-server 4.5.21-1.el8ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.5.21-1.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 automation-controller 4.5.21-1.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.5.21-1.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.5.21-1.el9ap, automation-controller-server 4.5.21-1.el9ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.5.21-1.el9ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-controller 4.6.11-2.el8ap, automation-gateway-proxy 2.5.9-1.el8ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.11-2.el8ap, automation-eda-controller 1.1.7-1.el8ap, automation-gateway 2.5.20250409-1.el8ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.11-2.el8ap, +21 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-controller 4.6.11-2.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.11-2.el9ap, automation-eda-controller 1.1.7-1.el9ap, automation-gateway 2.5.20250409-1.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.11-2.el9ap, automation-controller-server 4.6.11-2.el9ap, +23 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

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 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1295 Debug Messages Revealing Unnecessary Information

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.