# CVE-2019-19342: Information disclosure in Tower

> An attacker can obtain partial plaintext passwords via a socket error when requesting the websocket endpoint with specific characters.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Dec 2019
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-85r5-c7pw-c69h

## What is CVE-2019-19342?

CVE-2019-19342 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 19 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, when /websocket is requested and the password contains the '#' character. This request would cause a socket error in RabbitMQ when parsing the password and an HTTP error code 500 and partial password disclose will occur in plaintext. An attacker could easily guess some predictable passwords or brute force the password.

Weakness: CWE-209 (Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19342?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Redhat Ansible Tower.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-19342?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-19342 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-19342 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Ansible Tower

- [CVE-2018-10884](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10884/): Cross-site request forgery in ansible-tower (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2018-1104](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1104/): Code injection in Ansible Tower (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2019-14890](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14890/): Information disclosure in Tower (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2017-12148](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-12148/): Code injection in Ansible Tower (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2019-19340](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19340/): Misconfiguration in Tower (high 8.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-19342 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-19342 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 19 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Redhat Ansible Tower. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19342/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19342/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19342
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19342
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-19342

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-19342/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.