Ansible
CVE-2024-0690
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A09:2025 - Security Logging & Alerting Failures
ASVS 5.0
V16 - Security Logging and Error Handling Log output neutralization
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| Impact | CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in pypi
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-117. An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios. Information is still included in the output in certain tasks, such as loop items. Depending on the task, this issue may include sensitive information, such as decrypted secret values. Affected products include: Redhat Ansible, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Ansible Automation Platform, Redhat Ansible Developer, Redhat Ansible Inside.
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Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios. Information is still included in the output in certain tasks, such as loop items. Depending on the task, this issue may include sensitive information, such as decrypted secret values.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive inform
Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote organization administrators to gain privileges by creating a s
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allow remote attacker
A flaw was found in ansible 2.8.0 before 2.8.4. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
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 jenkin
Confluent Ansible (cp-ansible) version 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2 and 6.0.0 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control via its a
A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a play
The user module in ansible before 1.6.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands. Rated high seve
Symlink-following file overwrite on the Ansible control node is possible in ansible-core when a user runs `ansible-galax
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), this vulnerabili
Remote code execution via unsafe Python pickle deserialization in the community.general Ansible collection's memcached f
The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environme
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