Vulnerability in Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible Exposes Inventory Passwords
CVE-2025-2877

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 8
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 9
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 For Rhel 8
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 For Rhel 9
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 March 2025

Summary

A serious flaw exists within the Event-Driven Ansible component of the Ansible Automation Platform, where, under configurations that enable 'debug' verbosity, sensitive inventory passwords are displayed in plain text during rulebook activation. This issue occurs for any actions marked as 'debug' within a rulebook and also impacts Event Streams, potentially compromising sensitive information during automated processes.

Affected Version(s)

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 0:1.0.8-2.el8ap

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 0:1.0.8-2.el9ap

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:1.1.4-2.el8ap

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3636
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3637
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2877
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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