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
11/29/2018
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

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
NEW

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