THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-7550
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2017-7550

Ansible vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params" argument, and noting this in the module documentation.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Ansible
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Published
2017-11-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-7550

  • Confirm whether Redhat Ansible is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-7550.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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