CVE-2019-10217 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in ansible

What is CVE-2019-10217?

CVE-2019-10217 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, published on 25 Nov 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A flaw was found in ansible 2.8.0 before 2.8.4. Fields managing sensitive data should be set as such by no_log feature. Some of these fields in GCP modules are not set properly. service_account_contents() which is common class for all gcp modules is not setting no_log to True. Any sensitive data managed by that function would be leak as an output when running ansible playbooks.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10217?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Ansible.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10217?

Upgrade ansible to 2.8.4 or later.

Is CVE-2019-10217 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10217 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible

• CVE-2014-4657 Ansible Remote Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4966 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4967 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7550 Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-3498 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-10217, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10217, GHSA-p75j-wc34-527c, PYSEC-2019-3.