Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-7550

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7550 is a critical vulnerability in Ansible (versions 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where improper handling of parameters in the jenkins_plugin module could expose sensitive information from remote host logs. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and the vulnerability shows minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating it is not actively exploited or widely discussed.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0353 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.3.3.0
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.4.1.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: ansible-0:2.4.0.0-5.el7
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer 1Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage Console 2Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike)Fixed in: ansible

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-588w-w6mv-3cw5critical

Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-7550Moderate

ansible: jenkins_plugin module exposes passwords in remote host logs

Sep 25, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2966
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / ansible/ansible/issues/30874
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory