CVE-2018-10855
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 3.0%ansible - security update
Published: 10/10/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Ansible 2.5 prior to 2.5.5, and 2.4 prior to 2.4.5, do not honor the no_log task flag for failed tasks. When the no_log flag has been used to protect sensitive data passed to a task from being logged, and that task does not run successfully, Ansible will expose sensitive data in log files and on the terminal of the user running Ansible.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.4.6.0-r0
- Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.5.5+dfsg-1
- Debian/ansiblefrom 0, < 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u1
- PyPI/ansible>= 2.5.0a1, < 2.5.5
- PyPI/ansible>= 2.5, < 2.5.5, >= 2.4, < 2.4.5.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (18)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jwcc-j78w-j73w
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10855
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-10855
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10855
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3788
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1948
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1949
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2022
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2079
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2184
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2585
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0054
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10855
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2018-42.yaml
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396