CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-14890

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Nov 26, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.4
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.4 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
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A vulnerability was found in Ansible Tower before 3.6.1 where an attacker with low privilege could retrieve usernames and passwords credentials from the new RHSM saved in plain text into the database at /api/v2/config when applying the Ansible Tower license.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Ansible_towerRedhat3.6.0 (including)3.6.0 (including)
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7RedHatansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.1-1*

Potential Mitigations

References