VDB-143450 · CVE-2019-14858 · RHSA-2019:3201

Red Hat Ansible Engine/Ansible Tower Invalid Parameter log file

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation as part of Invalid Parameter leads to log file. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2019-14858. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower (version now known). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation as part of a Invalid Parameter leads to a log file vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-532. Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability was found in Ansible engine 2.x up to 2.8 and Ansible tower 3.x up to 3.5. When a module has an argument_spec with sub parameters marked as no_log, passing an invalid parameter name to the module will cause the task to fail before the no_log options in the sub parameters are processed. As a result, data in the sub parameter fields will not be masked and will be displayed if Ansible is run with increased verbosity and present in the module invocation arguments for the task.

The weakness was published 10/14/2019 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-14858 since 08/10/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Productinfo

Vendor

Red Hat

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License

open-source

Website

Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8

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VulDB Temp Score: 2.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Log file
CWE: CWE-532 / CWE-200 / CWE-284
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Timelineinfo

08/10/2019 🔍
10/14/2019 +65 days 🔍
10/15/2019 +1 days 🔍
01/08/2024 +1546 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: RHSA-2019:3201
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2019-14858 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-14858
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-143450

Entryinfo

Created: 10/15/2019 09:17
Updated: 01/08/2024 13:31
Changes: 10/15/2019 09:17 (37), 10/15/2019 09:22 (17), 08/22/2022 09:41 (4), 01/08/2024 13:25 (2), 01/08/2024 13:31 (12)
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