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TI-2025-02512 Aliases CVE-2025-2877GHSA-wfxf-3935-5jgv

Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook…

Priority LOW 29CWE-1295Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0042 36th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed ansible-rulebook: 1.1.6Red Hat: 2 advisories

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—ansible-rulebookbefore 1.1.61.1.6Patch availableCNA
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8—1.0.8-2.el8apPatch availableCNA
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9—1.0.8-2.el9apPatch availableCNA
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8—1.1.4-2.el8apPatch availableCNA
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9—1.1.4-2.el9apPatch availableCNA
  • ansible-rulebook Vendor— Affected before 1.1.6 Fixed in 1.1.6 Patch available CNA
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in 1.0.8-2.el8ap Patch available CNA
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in 1.0.8-2.el9ap Patch available CNA
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in 1.1.4-2.el8ap Patch available CNA
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in 1.1.4-2.el9ap Patch available CNA

CPE names CNA · 8

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el92.4—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el82.4—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el92.4—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el82.4—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el82.5—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el82.5—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el92.5—Red Hat
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el92.5—Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9 Versions 2.4 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8 Versions 2.4 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9 Versions 2.4 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8 Versions 2.4 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8 Versions 2.5 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 Versions 2.5 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9 Versions 2.5 — ·Red Hat
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 Versions 2.5 — ·Red Hat

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA ansible-rulebook Fixed in 1.1.6

Red Hat 2 advisories

  • RHSA-2025:3637 Released 2025-04-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 ansible-rulebook-1.1.4-2.el8ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 ansible-rulebook-1.1.4-2.el9ap
  • RHSA-2025:3636 Released 2025-04-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 ansible-rulebook-1.0.8-2.el8ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 ansible-rulebook-1.0.8-2.el9ap

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2025:3636
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2025:3636
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2025:3637
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2025:3637
Not affected: 4 products
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-2877
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wfxf-3935-5jgv

References

Advisory 2

Other 3

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  • TI-2019-15874 Protection mechanism failure in Jenkins Script Security Plugin KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2019-08259 Underflow in PHP-FPM can lead to RCE KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2019-03949 Out-of-bounds write in ESXi and Horizon DaaS KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-16080 A code execution vulnerability exists in the Stapler web framework used by Jenkins 2.153… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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