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CVE-2019-19341

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-19341 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Ansible Tower versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.2, where backup files in '/var/backup/tower' are left world-readable. This flaw allows any authenticated user with server access to retrieve sensitive data, including the SECRET_KEY and database backups, potentially exposing all credentials stored in Tower. The attack requires local access and knowledge of backup schedules, but has a high impact on confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.6.0, < 3.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower:3.5.4-1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.2-1
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-19341Moderate

Tower: intermediate files during Tower backup are world-readable

Dec 14, 2019

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory