CVE-2019-14890

Tower: RHSM username and password exposed after license application

Severity Score

8.4

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Se encontró una vulnerabilidad en Ansible Tower anterior de la versión 3.6.1, donde un atacante con pocos privilegios podía recuperar nombres de usuario y credenciales de contraseñas del nuevo RHSM guardado en texto plano en la base de datos en '/ api / v2 / config' al aplicar la licencia de Ansible Tower.

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower where the RHSM credentials are saved in plain text in the database that is available at '/api/v2/config' after applying the Ansible Tower license. Attackers with this information could log into RHSM and modify licenses and make other changes.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2019-08-10 CVE Reserved
2019-11-25 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14890	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14890	2019-11-25
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1773622	2019-11-25

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Ansible Tower Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Ansible Tower"				3.6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Ansible Tower" and version "3.6.0"		-		Affected