A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs could retrieve these secrets and potentially compromise Keycloak accounts or administrative access.

An update of the ansible package has been released.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1330 advisory.

    A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information     exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running     Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs could retrieve these secrets and potentially     compromise Keycloak accounts or administrative access. (CVE-2025-14010)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information
    exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running
    Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs could retrieve these secrets and potentially
    compromise Keycloak accounts or administrative access. (CVE-2025-14010)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information     exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running     Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs could retrieve these secrets and potentially     compromise Keycloak accounts or administrative access. (CVE-2025-14010)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321460	Photon OS 5.0: Ansible PHSA-2026-5.0-0855	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
282399	Amazon Linux 2023 : ansible (ALAS2023-2025-1330)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
436263	SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
436263	SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
277524	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-14010	Nessus	Misc.	medium

Detections

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CVE-2025-14010

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Tenable Plugins

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