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Vulnerability · Published Mar 28, 2025 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2025-2877Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in ansible-rulebook. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible. In configurations where verbosity is set to "debug", inventory passwords are exposed in plain text when starting a rulebook activation. This issue exists for any "debug" action in a rulebook and also affects Event Streams.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
ansible-rulebook 0 – before 1.1.6
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 see references

Weakness: CWE-1295 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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