Medium severity · published Mar 28, 2025
CVE-2025-2877
Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
Affected product
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
Red Hat
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2877
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2877
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3636
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3637
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2877
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355540
github.com
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-rulebook/pull/767
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