CVE-2024-0690Ansible-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ansible_no_log configuration
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 77% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios. Information is still included in the output in certain tasks, such as loop items. Depending on the task, this issue may include sensitive information, such as decrypted secret values.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
ansible
- affected 2.14.0 – < 2.14.4
- affected 2.15.0 – < 2.15.9
- affected 2.16.0 – < 2.16.3
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:2.15.9-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:2.15.9-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:2.15.9-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:2.15.9-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:2.15.9-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:2.15.9-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- unaffected 0:2.16.3-2.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- unaffected 1:2.14.14-1.el9 – < *
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansible-coreGHSA-h24r-m9qc-pvpg (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: Explicitly setting 'no_log' within the playbook will prevent the output from containing potentially sensitive information.
References
References9
- RHSA-2024:0733 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:2246 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:3043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0690 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2259013 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/82565 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0001/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IZQGCRDSZL7ONCULMB6ZUHOE4L44KIBP/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VDYSWOCPZMNRU5LWKIEBW4WGWLMTU7WQ/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-0003 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-h24r-m9qc-pvpg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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