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CVE-2025-2877: Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1295

Description

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible. In configurations where verbosity is set to "debug", inventory passwords are exposed in plain text when starting a rulebook activation. This issue exists for any "debug" action in a rulebook and also affects Event Streams.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8: all versions — fixed in 0:1.0.8-2.el8ap
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9: all versions — fixed in 0:1.0.8-2.el9ap
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8: all versions — fixed in 0:1.1.4-2.el8ap
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9: all versions — fixed in 0:1.1.4-2.el9ap

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 0:1.0.8-2.el8ap; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 0:1.0.8-2.el9ap; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:1.1.4-2.el8ap; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:1.1.4-2.el9ap. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3636
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3637
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2877
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355540
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-rulebook/pull/767

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