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CVE-2019-14856

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-14856 describes a vulnerability in Ansible versions prior to 2.8.6, 2.7.14, and 2.6.20, affecting various openSUSE and Red Hat Ansible distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows an authenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact without user interaction, likely due to an improper authentication issue (CWE-287). There is currently 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
>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.8.0, < 2.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0165 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.6.20
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.8.6
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 2.7.14
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el8ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-0:2.7.14-1.el7ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-0:2.8.6-1.el8ae
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)Fixed in: ansible-0:2.6.20-1.el7ae
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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
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 2Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 3Fixed in: ansible
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky)Fixed in: ansible

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-6fq2-x65v-v9h7high

Ansible password prompts could expose passwords

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2019-14856Moderate

ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206

Oct 8, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2020:0756
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory