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CVE-2019-3869

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-3869 affects Red Hat Ansible Tower versions prior to 3.4.3 when deployed on OpenShift or Kubernetes. This vulnerability exposes application credentials as environment variables during playbook job runs, allowing a highly privileged malicious user who can write playbooks to gain administrative access. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this flaw presents a significant risk due to its high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring high privileges but no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.4.0, < 3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0127 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 5,530 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: ansible-tower-0:3.4.3-1.el7at
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-0:5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-amazon-smartstate-0:5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-appliance-0:5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.10Fixed in: cfme-gemset-0:5.10.3.3-1.el7cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-33/ansible-tower:3.3.5-3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower:3.4.3-4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-18
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redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-messaging:3.7.4-10
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-3869Moderate

Tower: credentials leaked through environment variables

Mar 26, 2019

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
github.com / ansible/awx/pull/3505
PatchThird Party Advisory