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CVE-2019-14864
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2020-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-117
Description
Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag no_log set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors. This would discloses and collects any sensitive data.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 10.0
- openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
- openSUSE Leap: 15.1
- Red Hat Ansible: from 2.7.0 before 2.7.15; from 2.8.0 before 2.8.7; from 2.9.0 before 2.9.1 — fixed in 2.7.15, 2.8.7, 2.9.1
- Tower: 3.0
- Red Hat Ceph Storage: 3.0
- Red Hat CloudForms: 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat Ansible 2.7.15, 2.8.7, 2.9.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00026.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14864
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63522
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/63527
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00026.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14864
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/63522
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/63527
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
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