🛡️ CVE-2017-7550 — ansible

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-532 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability

A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params" argument, and noting this in the module documentation.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-7550 is classified as CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. Sensitive values are written to logs, which are typically kept longer and read more widely than the data warrants.

Affected software

CVE-2017-7550 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ansible (from 2.3.0.0 up to 2.3.3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 4 September 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-532
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-09-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ansible 2.3.0.0 2.3.3.0

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