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CVE-2019-14846

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-14846 is a credential disclosure vulnerability affecting Ansible Engine versions up to 2.8.5, 2.7.13, and 2.6.19, impacting Debian, openSUSE, and Red Hat distributions. The flaw stems from Ansible logging at the DEBUG level, which could expose credentials if a plugin utilized a library that also logged sensitive information at this level. This vulnerability is rated as HIGH severity (CVSS 7.8), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.6.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (16)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.7.14
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.8.6
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.6.20
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el8ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el7ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.7.14-1.el7ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el7ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el7ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el8ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)Fixed in: ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el7ae
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) for RHEL 7.6 EUSFixed in: ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el7ae
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3Fixed in: ansible

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-pm48-cvv2-29q5high

Ansible Uses Plugins That Disclose Credentials

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2019-14846Important

ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log enabled

Oct 8, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00021.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3201
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3202
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3203
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3207
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0756
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
github.com / ansible/ansible/pull/63366
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00023.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2021/dsa-4950
Third Party Advisory