CVE-2025-2877

Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda

Published Mar 28, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-8615 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9
References
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9
Vendors & Products Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
References
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description No description is available for this CVE. 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.
Title event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in EDA Event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in eda
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
References
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description No description is available for this CVE.
Title event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in EDA
Weaknesses CWE-1295
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

threat_severity

Important

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Mar 20, 2026, 5:57 PM
Reserved
Mar 27, 2025, 5:06 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Mar 28, 2025, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:07 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Mar 25, 2025, 12:00 AM