CVE-2019-3869

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-214

Description

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.

Affected products

Tower: before 3.3.5; from 3.4.0 before 3.4.3 — fixed in 3.3.5, 3.4.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Tower 3.3.5, 3.4.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3869
https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3869
https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505

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