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CVE-2019-14890

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-14890 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Ansible Tower versions prior to 3.6.1. It allows a low-privileged attacker to retrieve sensitive username and password credentials, stored in plain text within the database, when a new RHSM license is applied. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.4, indicating a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. 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
3.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
14.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0024 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.1-1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-14890Important

Tower: RHSM username and password exposed after license application

Nov 25, 2019

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory