CVE-2019-14858

Publication date 14 October 2019

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

john-breton

Vulnerable code was not introduced until 2.4.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ansible	Upstream: 0fd656e Upstream: 3dfb8e8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H