vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-16859: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 29, 2018
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Aug 8, 2025

Description

Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for 'become' passwords to appear in EventLogs in plaintext. A local user with administrator privileges on the machine can view these logs and discover the plaintext password. Ansible Engine 2.8 and older are believed to be vulnerable.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ansible
Title
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